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Your question assumes older software needed to do any tricks. > There is one area where newer hardware lags behind older gear: latency. > That's the time it t
by Leftium 4y ago
Your question assumes older software needed to do any tricks.
> There is one area where newer hardware lags behind older gear: latency.
> That's the time it takes for a press on the keyboard to show up on the screen, and Luu found that the Apple IIe, first launched in 1983, beat out a collection of more modern computers with its latency response of 30 milliseconds. A 2014 MacBook Pro was lagging behind on 100ms, while a Windows machine running an Intel i7 processor took 200ms.
> So why do older computers register key presses faster than newer ones, on the whole? It's all to do with the complexity of the systems – while older machines are nowhere near as powerful, they also have much less to handle in terms of inputs, outputs and all the various processes along the way.
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