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Funny you'd mention that: I was just comparing a Raspberry Pi 3 with a 1990 SS2, which totally skunks it 86:1!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19717416

>How many more times faster is a typical smartphone today (Raspberry Pi 3: 2,451 MIPS, ARM Cortex A73: 71,120 MIPS) that a 1990 SparcStation 2 pizzabox (28.5 MIPS, $15,000-$27,000)?

Remember "2^(year-1984)"?

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mil...

On Nov 8, 2018, I sent Bill Joy a birthday greeting: "Happy 17,179,869,184 MIPS Birthday, Bill"! (2 to the (year - 1984))



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