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Sleep() at home
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On my first programming lesson, we were taught that 1 second sleep was
for i = 1 to 1000😀, computers was not that fast back then...I mean maybe in an early interpreted language like BASIC… even the Intel 8086 could count to 1000 in a fraction of a second
This was in 1985, on a ABC80, a Swedish computer with a 3 MHz CPU. So, in theory it would be much faster, but I assume there were many performance losses (slow basic interpretor and thing like that) so that for loop got close enough to a second for us to use.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_80