1985v2022

dankblog! 2022-11-30, 1939 EDT, at the danktower

several things couldn't be compared: size of the DNS (information not available before i got bored looking for it), size of core routing tables (BGP was not yet invented), number of player-missile graphics (intel wisely eschewed Player-Missile Graphics), etc. Also, it's difficult to succinctly state the capacity of one side of a Genesis tape when recording 6502 assembly to it with the ATARI 410 Cassette Recorder; my apologies for any inaccuracy.

Variable	ATARI 400 (1985)	Dankputer (2022)	ln(abs(Δ) + 1) (kinda)
Spinning disk	108K (30 minute cassette tape using FSK)	240TB	33.1
RAM	16KB	256GB	26.3
Transistors	3510	23540000000	23.8
Network rate	1200	10000000000	23.0
CPU clock	1.79MHz	4.3GHz	22.2
Internet hosts	2000	5.5 billion	22.4
Colors	4	16777216	16.6
Display pixels	61440	4953600	15.4
Annual income	$20	$850000	13.7
Display area	126736	346710sqmm	12.3
Cost to me	$25	$10000	9.2
Die size	358sqmm	4411sqmm	8.3
Top-level DNS domains	7	1484	7.3
Die watts	20W	280W	5.6
Register bits	8	256	5.5
RAM latency, ns	500	400	4.6
Weight	4.4kg	63.5kg	4.0
Size of a word	8	64	4.0
Keys	57	105	3.9
My age	5	42	3.6
Game controller buttons	1	12	2.4
Game controller sticks/pads	1	2	0.7
Dead Seymour Crays	0	1	0.7
Primary IP version	4	4	0, it's ipv4 until the earth burns up baby
Living Seymour Crays	1	0	-0.7
VCore	5V	1.2V	-1.3
Communist nations	20 (USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia account as one nation each, and Eritrea does not yet exist)	5 and fewer all the time the bums lost, lebowski!	-2.7
RAM latency, cycles	1	1500	-7.3
Feature size	9000nm	"7nm" + "12nm"	-9.1
Desire to own a laser printer	100000	-100000	-12.2

previously: "a unix riddle" 2022-09-17