u/alangcarter

[A Chorus of CPUs](https://parhamdata.com/Transputer/ChorusOfCPUs.pdf) in the December 1991 edition of Scientific American described supercomputer designers dreaming of a Teraflops machine and the exotic languages that would be needed to program them. I remember reading it at the time.

35 years later an M5 Macbook Pro delivers over 16 Teraflops and we program them in Python (with a little help from PyTorch). So much of today's technology - TCP/IP, WiMP interface, C++, SunOS, even Python - already existed by then it can obfuscate the advances that have occured. I mean, I'm still writing Bourne style in my bash 😂