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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, ipv4 until the earth burns
Living Seymour Crays 1 0 -0.7
VCore 5V 1.2V -1.3
Communist nations 20 (USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia counting as one nation each; Eritrea does not yet exist) 5 -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