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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by agumonkey on Thursday December 19, 2019 @10:35AM (#21835748)
Analog TV were real time at the speed of electrons minus some layers of inertia (capacitance say).

Nowadays there's many layers of various quality, and software reactivity is a factor of so many things.

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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by Koshkin on Thursday December 19, 2019 @10:53AM (#21835941)
To be more accurate, the speed with which electrons move through the wire is rather low (which does not matter, of course, because the signals are carried by the electromagnetic forces which propagate very quickly).
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