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I absolutely love the phrase "HTML5 supercomputer".
by hbosch 6y ago
I absolutely love the phrase "HTML5 supercomputer".
- csours 6y agoOT: I've wanted to make a simple chip simulator that runs entirely in a browser for a while now.
- DarmokJalad1701 6y agohttps://win95.ajf.me/ https://win95.ajf.me/
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoIt's the most accurate part of his statement. Everybody is walking around with portable supercomputers.
- dylan604 6y agoThey are only supercomputers in comparison to 1970s hardware. Today, they are just average computing devices.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoModern smartphones would make the early 90's top 500.
- sgerenser 6y agoiPhone 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/ https://gadgetversus.com/processor/apple-a13-bionic-specs/ [2] https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/1994/06/ https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/1994/06/
- pfraze 6y agoThat's up there with describing your Wordpress as "a globally-connected information transfer system"
- lokedhs 6y agoThat's a lot more accurate than the HTML5 statement though, right?