[conan_fr]

I think yes and we were more focused on the task to achieve but on the other hand, computers were dead slower than today's ones. I remember launching tasks for a whole night (for example generating a mandelbrot 720×348 MDA picture near 1984 on IBM PC) and checking the result the following day. Now we can code (IDE with watch mode) and see the result in realtime as we can see on Live Coding session video on YouTube.

[AnimalMuppet]

Heh. I remember getting a 68000 to increment a (32-bit) zero until it was zero again. It took it 8 hours. Nowadays, it's a second (if the compiler doesn't optimize it out completely).

What's that? We're discussing productivity? Oh. Carry on...