[peter303]

Cray 1: 80 MFLOPS and 8 megabytes in 1976. That was the standard for "mini-supercomputers" in the 1980s.

[kabdib]

And subject to ITAR export regulation, as you might imagine.

By the mid 80s, personal computers were starting to get close to these limits and the US government had to start tweaking the rule's thresholds.