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I toured my eventual college’s CS dept as a HS senior (this was a LONG time ago. Punch cards, people.) One machine counted clock cycles between two key presses
by mud_dauber 3y ago
I toured my eventual college’s CS dept as a HS senior (this was a LONG time ago. Punch cards, people.)
One machine counted clock cycles between two key presses using the same finger. From what I recall the smallest answers were in the … thousands?
- shpx 3y agoI had a similar thought from this video counting CPU interrupts in one key press on the 6502 https://youtu.be/DlEa8kd7n3Q?t=12m52s https://youtu.be/DlEa8kd7n3Q?t=12m52s In one second I can type about 7 ASCII characters, read maybe 20, or aim and click like twice. Each typed character is worth like 600 million CPU instructions of a single core of a 4GHz CPU. It's actually this fat, precious thing, the product of a giant computation from a "computer" (that was optimized for something else) that we aren't harnessing at anywhere near its real value. Instead, we type semicolons.