Even putting that aside, just showing text on a screen is much slower on modern PCs then older ones, since you have a far more complicated graphics stack and latency at several added steps.
I remember an article a couple of years ago where someone rigged up a camera to measure key press to screen update on different machines and the results were eye opening.
I remember an article a couple of years ago where someone rigged up a camera to measure key press to screen update on different machines and the results were eye opening.
edit: found it http://danluu.com/input-lag/. The Apple ][ ties for first place with an iPad Pro.