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Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-mips dept.

An anonymous reader noted that according to Wired, it will be announced officially on Monday the Big Mac supercomputer is the third-fastest super-computer. The article also talks about some of the amazing supercomputers in the planning stages. The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer.

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  1. Yeah, but.. by Ceadda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can it sing the whole song without messing up so we all win the big prize? or doesnt anyone remember getting a record with their bigmac all those years ago...

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  2. TI-85? by SomeoneGotMyNick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The TI-85 is a super-calc.

    My desk drawer has a TI-58C, TI-59, and an SR-56. I turn them on occasionaly to bask in their soft red glow for a while.

  3. The TI-85 by boris_the_hacker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A great graphics calculator.

    Great to program with - I wrote a vm in an exam because I was bored and too suspicious to leave early.

    Even things like bezier curves were fun to get going.

    The only thing that anoyed me was that the TI-85 had no means of finding out if a pixel had been turned on or off in the graph view (the way you did graphics). The TI-82 had it, but not the TI-85. Why is this anoying ? It makes collision detection very hard to do and thus gaming was somewhat limited. So even though I was Mr-Fancy-Pants with my TI-85, I couldn't get the good games that my friends with the TI-82 could. Although I did write an elementry space invaders game in the text mode part of the calculator in a double lesson of pure mathematics.

    Ohwell, the time wasted at school :)

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