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Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system
'Qommodore 64' born from 2,500 lines of MOS 6502 assembly code.
The jokey Quantum Disadvantage paper ( PDF link, headlining section starts at page 199) ports this experiment to a machine packing the far more humble MOS Technology 6510 processor. Famously, IBM claimed such calculations were “too difficult to perform on a classical computer to an acceptable accuracy, using the leading approximation techniques,” recalls the paper. However, source code will only be supplied in one of three formats, they say: “a copy handwritten on papyrus, a slide-show of blurry screenshots recorded on a VHS tape, or that I dictate it to you personally over the phone.” So please add an extra pinch of salt to this story for that.
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