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by twoodfin 10 days ago
I did this research once, and actually consumer CPU’s didn’t hit the performance of the original Cray-1 (1976) until roughly the Pentium II (1997).

The Crays used in the fictional Jurassic Park (Y-MP’s?) would have been much more powerful still.

The Cray machines were incredible feats of design and engineering.