Harsh But Mostly Thoughtful John McGrath
@HarshThoughtful · Jun 29, 2026
d this.
We wrote Telescript teleprompter software specifically in C and C+ to avoid the layers and “speak” directly to the firmware.
It was key in the early computer/video days (early 1990s) to have zero delays when important people depended on the words they had to say in
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Same. I worked video games in the 90s with no graphics accelerators. Every CPU clock cycle mattered.
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