I will always remember the smooth feel of an old SparcStation 20 I got in the late &#x27;00s. It was engineered so that hardware interrupts wouldn&#x27;t get in each other&#x27;s way. Regardless of the puny specs, the responsiveness was amazing, compared to any then-new x86 machine, where the console would stutter every time the OS felt like writing a large block to the hard drive.