I just did a BOTE calculation for my iPhone (A17 Pro chip; GPU rated at 4 Tflops). According to the sales blurbage in TFA, the Cray 1 performed at 80 Mflops. (Yes, that is OBVIOUSLY not comparing apples to Apples -- pun intended). Unless I've dropped a decimal point, my iPhone is (capable of) 50,000 times the floating point speed of a Cray 1.

In my back pocket. To watch cat videos.

I remember computer magazines of the time talking about "a Cray on a chip" in their April 1st jokes.

Well... we're there. Far past, in fact. We live in the future that then was so far out of reach that people could only joke about it, not consider it a realistic possibility.

In one lifetime.

> I'd love to do an order of magnitude comparison to a modern M4 Mac... Amazing how far we've come.

Yes, would be nice to compare the capabilities (multiuser, multitasking, security, RCE). Did we get _so_ far ? How many users can a Mac sustain ?

Cray 1 - 160 MFLOPS

M4 CPU - 280 GFLOPS

M4 GPU - 2900 GFLOPS