Would a 50 year old supercomputer be still considered a supercomputer? I think not. It would probably not even be considered a computer. More akin to a calculator like the TI-series.
Whether or not something is a supercomputer has more to do with its architecture and performance during its production lifetime. Just because technology advanced doesn't mean this machine suddenly stopped being a supercomputer.
> A 1956 Maserati 250F weights 550kgs and has 270hp. Top speed 290.
> So you would need a quite serious road car to beat it. But not impossible.
> A big performance factor are also the suspension, tires and brakes. 1950s tires were quite skinny and not really grippy compared to what you can find on a sport car today, so I would expect the performance gap to be more in favor of the modern car in the twisty bit and the braking.
> But to summarize, you daily driver would still be smashed by a 1956 F1 car, except if you daily drive an Ariel Atom, a Porsche GT3 or something even more exotic.
It looks like the x,y are a bit slower than they should and that distorts the letters a bit. It'd be cool if we could read the geometry data out of the terminal. If it's a list of traces generated on the computer that gets refreshed from time to time, it may be easier.
My memory is bad but I recall it was the CDC 6600 or one of the CDC's that came up with Register Renaming right? The precursor to Tomasulo's Algorithm.
I can remember seeing some sort of a lunar lander program running on the console screens of the CDC ?6600 at Indiana University in 1970, as I peered in to the machine room waiting for my sad little student Fortran program to fail.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 37.3 ms ] thread> A 1956 Maserati 250F weights 550kgs and has 270hp. Top speed 290.
> So you would need a quite serious road car to beat it. But not impossible.
> A big performance factor are also the suspension, tires and brakes. 1950s tires were quite skinny and not really grippy compared to what you can find on a sport car today, so I would expect the performance gap to be more in favor of the modern car in the twisty bit and the braking.
> But to summarize, you daily driver would still be smashed by a 1956 F1 car, except if you daily drive an Ariel Atom, a Porsche GT3 or something even more exotic.
It is a vector display.