alt Hacker NewsI remember playing Doom on a single-core 25MHz 486 laptop. It was, at the time, an amazing machine, hundreds of times more powerful than the flight computer that ran the Apollo space capsule, and now it is outclassed by an earbud.
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tadfisher • yesterday at 6:24 PM
And perhaps more fittingly, that PC couldn't decode and play an MP3 in real time.
Can we finally end this Apollo computer comparison forever? It was a real time computer NOT designed for speed but real time operations.1
Why don't you compare it to let's say pdp11, vax780/11 or Cray 1 supercomputer?
NASA used a lot of supercomputers here on earth pior to mission start.