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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by lokedhs on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:10AM (#29964438)
As you get older, the differences just becomes larger and larger. At some point it just gets ridiculous. My current laptop has almost 1 million times more RAM than my first computer (40 GB vs. 64 kB).

It's just impossible to compare the numbers when the differences are that large.

And of course, a post like this is not complete without me noting that the response times when pressing a button on the keyboard was vastly faster on my C64 than my modern machine.

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by johndoe0815 on Monday January 17, 2022 @05:46AM (#29965264)
> And of course, a post like this is not complete without me noting that the response times when pressing a button on the keyboard was vastly faster on my C64 than my modern machine.

Related - the analysis on input latencies by Dan Luu https://danluu.com/input-lag/

No numbers are given for the C64, but the timing for the CBM4016 (with quite similar firmware/BASIC) should be similar. The Apple 2 input latency is even lower. Perhaps this is related to the fact that the Apple 2 firmware didn't use interrupts and polling might have been more efficient in this case.

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