Wasn't around computing in 1983 but phone and web app latency are still way behind the average early 2000s office or line-of-business app. Also ironic is the a

Wasn't around computing in 1983 but phone and web app latency are still way behind the average early 2000s office or line-of-business app. Also ironic is the act that the most significant improvement in responsiveness during the last 20 years was afforded not by better software or even faster CPUs but by the move to SSDs for OS, data and swap space.