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by isp 1144 days ago
The legendary Cray-2 was the fastest supercomputer in the world in 1985, with peak 1.9 GFLOPS. Less than four decades ago.

By comparison, the Cray is outperformed by my smartphone.

Actually, it is outperformed by my previous smartphone, which I purchased in 2016 and replaced in 2018.

Actually, it is outperformed by a single core on my previous smartphone, of which it has eight cores.