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I absolutely love the phrase "HTML5 supercomputer".



That's up there with describing your Wordpress as "a globally-connected information transfer system"


That's a lot more accurate than the HTML5 statement though, right?


It's the most accurate part of his statement. Everybody is walking around with portable supercomputers.


They are only supercomputers in comparison to 1970s hardware. Today, they are just average computing devices.


Modern smartphones would make the early 90's top 500.


iPhone 11 (A13 Bionic): 154.9 GFLOPS [1]

Intel Paragon XP/S 140 (#1 on the top500 list in June 1994): 143.4 GFLOPS [2]

Don't know whether to marvel at how fast a modern smartphone is, or how "slow" old supercomputers were.

(Yes, I realize GFLOPS is probably not the best comparison and I have no idea where gadgetversus.com even gets its numbers from, but I think they're at least in the ballpark).

[1] https://gadgetversus.com/processor/apple-a13-bionic-specs/

[2] https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/1994/06/


OT: I've wanted to make a simple chip simulator that runs entirely in a browser for a while now.





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