Comp201: Principles of Object-Oriented Programming I
Spring 2008 -- Computers of Yore    

1946: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer -- 385 Floating Point Operations Per Second or "FLOPS")

1964: IBM System/360 (~ 1 MFLOPS = 1.0x10⁶ FLOPS)

1976: Cray-1 (80 MFLOPS = 8.0x10⁷ FLOPS)

2000: Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor (12 GFLOPS = 1.2x10¹⁰ FLOPS)

2006:  IBM BlueGene/L  (207 TFLOPS = 2.07x10¹⁴ FLOPS)

And to put it all in perspective....

~200,000 BC (~5,000 BC?): Human Brain (~100 PFLOPS = 1.0x10¹⁷ FLOPS)

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