I did this research once, and actually consumer CPU’s didn’t hit the performance of the original Cray-1 (1976) until roughly the Pentium II (1997). The Crays u

I did this research once, and actually consumer CPU’s didn’t hit the performance of the original Cray-1 (1976) until roughly the Pentium II (1997). The Crays used in the fictional Jurassic Park (Y-MP’s?) would have been much more powerful still. The Cray machines were incredible feats of design and engineering.