On: Computer latency: 1977-2017

[sehugg]

When I had my old CRT-connected Linux box -- I would kill the X server process from the text console, and it seemed that the monitor went blank even before I pressed the Enter key.

[gwillen → sehugg]

I had forgotten about that, but I've totally had this experience too. A sufficiently low-latency response feels like it has negative latency.