I get that it was mostly a joke. :) The LAN controller used to make the Beowulf cluster would probably have more compute (and memory) than the 6502 itself. Th

I get that it was mostly a joke. :) The LAN controller used to make the Beowulf cluster would probably have more compute (and memory) than the 6502 itself. The Intel cores in the linked article have a distinct L1 data and instruction caches inside them, and associated L2 caches, which makes a big difference in comparison to the 6502.