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by intricatedetail 1627 days ago
It still frustrates me that e.g. text editors can't get the basics like a latency between a key press and character appearing on the screen. My latest Ryzen can't compete with C64 in that regard.
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Some of that isn't the text editors fault. With the C64 the keystroke may be on the screen before it out of the USB stack on a modern computer. That is even before you start to consider the latency in the video stack. As John Carmack once noted: "I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?" -- https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480622533120001