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Subject:	Re: Which editor do you use?
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"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT nohavenot DOT cmm> wrote in message 
news:grmqc2$g1o$1 AT aioe DOT org...
> "Charles Sandmann" <cwsdpmi AT earthlink DOT net> wrote in message
> news:QZadnYMxDO0TT0PUnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d AT earthlink DOT com...
>> Try compiling from ... god forbid floppies
>> sometime and you can really see the difference.
>
> You mean 5 1/4 inch floppies (or "god forbid," 8 inch floppies...), not
> "large capacity," and "modern," 3 1/2 inch floppies, right?  Personally, I
> wouldn't even attempt compiling on 5 1/4's with anything other than Turbo
> C/C++, or perhaps another compiler of the era.

All my PDP/11 work was on the 8" floppies (dual floppy system).
The pattern of certain compiles was so orderly it started to sound
like music to you after hundreds of times...  That was a luxury
compared to compiling off DEC TU-58 cartridges, which used
a 38K serial line connection for connection.  On those things a
compile might take 2 hours.  (Yes, source was full of tabs!
And short variable names ! And no documentation !)

I had a DJGPP mini-distro that would fit on a 1.44MB 3.5" floppy, and
you could keep your source on the 360K 5.25" floppy for compiles. 

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