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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:57AM (#28454381)
Back in the day, moving your mouse made things look like they were processing faster.
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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by codesections on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:30AM (#28455251)
Not just _look like_ — on Windows 95, moving the mouse _actually_ made things process faster, for fairly bizarre reasons.

Source: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why...

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