300 baud --> 1200 baud. Now there was a noticeable difference. And yet, many years later, I had an impossible time explaining to a the more pointy-haired end

300 baud --> 1200 baud. Now there was a noticeable difference. And yet, many years later, I had an impossible time explaining to a the more pointy-haired end of a large development division, why IBM Rational products might not work so well when accessed from halfway around the world. (They are/were very "chatty" between client and server, and the cumulative latency of all those round-trips simply killed you.) Latency's still a sticking point, and a lot of people don't understand/believe it until they see it for themselves. P.S. It may sound like I'm talking about something else -- apples and oranges. But no. What I mean is, in many domains, people don't get latency until they experience it. I suppose that decades ago, that typewriter was just fine. Until you got fast enough. Then, as the stuck key mashes and/or other physical limits started to cap and impact your performance, you realized what people meant about "better" mechanisms. I wonder whether in some cases, people like musicians have a better natural perspective on it. Domains where it's more readily apparent and dealt with. Sorry, my mind's a bit all over the place, today...