> On Apr 11, 2018, at 11:05 AM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 29 March 2018 at 19:53, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> It would be fun to do a "generalized Moore's Law" chart, showing not just
>> transistor count growth (Moore's subject) but also the many other scaling
>> changes of computing: disk capacity, recording density, disk IOPS, disk
>> bandwidth, ditto those for tape, CPU MIPS, memory size, memory bandwidth,
>> network bandwidth...
>
> This is the most telling I've seen in a long time...
>
> https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Nice. It would be interesting to throw in some even older systems. One that
comes to mind is PLATO. I don't remember exactly what it delivered for
response time, there were good test results on it. Somewhere in the 100 ms
range, I believe, much of which was transmission delays due to low baud rates.
And that was with 600 users, sharing a quad processor 4 x 10 MHz machine, in
1976.
paul
