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Re:Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM by twoodfin on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @02:09PM (#43624770)
Indeed. I find it interesting to look at the generational outliers on that curve: The Cray-1 wasn’t eclipsed in raw FP compute by a consumer system until the Pentium more than 15 years later.

http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20P...

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Re:Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM by btilly on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @02:27PM (#43624965)
Most of the outliers look like, "Someone was willing to spend large amounts of money."

Another outlier was Deep Blue. Estimated cost of about $10 million. Its estimated strength was matched by top end PCs about 9 years later. Your phone today is better than those PCs.

Progress is relentless.

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