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i would bet money that an apple watch has more computing power than was available to all of NASA, and maybe the entire US government, at the time
by recursivedoubts 2y ago
i would bet money that an apple watch has more computing power than was available to all of NASA, and maybe the entire US government, at the time
- hinkley 2y agoFaster than a Cray 2.
- fragmede 2y agoThe latest (series 9) Apple Watch has (up to) 2 GB of RAM and can do billions of instructions per second. In 1966, the mainframe to use was the CDC 6600, able to do ~3 million instructions per second (MIPS), with kilobytes, possibly a megabyte of RAM. The US government had a good number of mainframes, of a wide variety, but they wouldn't be able to reach the Apple Watch's computing power.