Computer latency: 1977-2017 (tldr "Almost every computer and mobile device that people buy today is slower than common models of computers from the 70s and 80s")

cm0002@lemy.lol · 1 month ago

Computer latency: 1977-2017 (tldr "Almost every computer and mobile device that people buy today is slower than common models of computers from the 70s and 80s")

paulh@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 month ago

I think that Palm Pilots (and so probably Treo phones) just ran the apps in-place (from the flash memory or ram). So if you pushed the “calendar” button it just switched to running it. No loading involved.