Toothbrush With Apollo-Era Computing Power
An electric toothbrush has nearly as much computing power as a 1976-vintage CRAY-1 supercomputer that cost roughly $20M. This toothbrush is more powerful than all the mainframes NASA had during the Apollo program. (And you ask why I don't write stuff like Accelerando any more?) Our children's @philips electric toothbrush contains a 32-bit ARM processor, clocked at 48MHz. I've even got the development tools for the Cypress PSoC 4, and they've nicely labelled the debug pads. It's just a toothbrush. Really.
A screenshot of a humorous social-media post compares an ordinary Philips electric toothbrush with the computing power of a 1976 CRAY-1 supercomputer and NASA’s Apollo-era mainframes. The embedded post reveals the toothbrush contains a 32-bit ARM processor, development tools, and labelled debugging pads. The joke is the absurd contrast between a mundane household device and surprisingly powerful modern electronics, with a reference to Charles Stross’s technology-heavy science-fiction novel Accelerando.
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- @right_wing_dev_squads / 9945 2024-06-30
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