Ah yes... it's finally been long enough... in the old days we used to see the first attempts to make programs run at the same speed everywhere or at least on two different PCs.... and it was a huge pain... wasted extra cycles to figure out how fast things were moving....

And no consistent sw arch to run things at a steady rate. And even when they did run at mostly the same rate in most of the sections of the program heh, they usually did so by wasting cycles, so the prg ran no better on faster hw....

But that was a long time ago, before sw libraries were common! And when APIS were scarcely heard of, at least for home computers and also took too much overheard....

It was the best of times, the worst of times hahaha. No one could foresee the techniques and platforms we have now. :) ah the good old days...