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Although of little commercial value, this shows the power of an open platform. Current smartphones are thousand times more powerful than the old Atari ST, never
by marcodiego 4y ago
Although of little commercial value, this shows the power of an open platform. Current smartphones are thousand times more powerful than the old Atari ST, nevertheless, you won't be able to do anything useful or fun with them a few years after support ends because you can't easily replace its software/rom/firmware.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoMotorola m68k @ 8mhz = ~1.4 MIPS vs ARM Cortex A72 @ 18,375 MIPS So actually 13000 times more powerful just in that one metric (instructions per second). Though of course it's more than that, as throughput in memory access, and concurrent operations and 64-bit math etc obviously much faster.