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BORK!BORK!BORK! Paris might sometimes be called "The City of Light" or perhaps "The City of Love" by the romantically inclined. Judging by this hotel's elevators, "The City of Bork" is more appropriate.

Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Nathaniel in a Paris hotel, what we assume to be digital signage is instead stalled on the all too familiar American Megatrends BIOS configuration screen. The computer behind the scenes also seems a bit overpowered to serve information for hotel services.

Instead of enticing elevator riders into the undoubtedly delightful bars and restaurants of the establishment (apparently a Novotel not far from the Eiffel Tower) or whatever it should be doing, this screen has temptations of an altogether more technical nature.

A CometLake CPU? An i5 no less? Sort of up-to-date. And that 8 GB of RAM? The way memory prices are going, that might be enough to buy you a nice hotel room in some cities, and at least a decent coffee and a croque monsieur in Paris.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I never get tired of this comparison, esp. with the smartphone in your hand.

One can push it further: ALL of the computing power used for/during the moonlanding has been surpassed by any smartphone, by orders of magnitude.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nokia 3310 is much more powerful than Apollo mission computer. Crazy! And yet we need our phones getting bigger memory and faster CPUs each year. Why? Makes no sense 🤷

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Damn you're right. According to this article the apollo computer hat 32kB RAM and ran on ... 0.043MHz