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buildsjets • today at 4:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

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/


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cowlevel • today at 5:32 PM

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.

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