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Same with storage. This laptop has a few times more RAM than my first PC had disk space. And in turn, I've used servers that had more RAM than my laptop today h

• lokedhs 5y ago
  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.
  • johndoe0815 5y ago
    > 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/ 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.