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points by buildsjets 2 days ago | 0 comments
It's a 2017 article, but according to this, the two personal computers with the lowest input latency of all time are the Apple //e (1983) and the TI-99/4a (1979)

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

[–] cowlevel 2 days ago
And the highest latency was a Symbolics Lisp machine from 1986. It's not the transistor count, it's the depth of the abstraction stack.
[–] FabHK 2 days ago
In particular it's the depth of the abstraction stack divided by transistor count. Wirth's Law: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law