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by alphaglosined
1133 days ago
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About a year ago I had a look at a C compiler for 16bit computers, featured in disk form on I think Adrian's digital basement YT channel. The compiler was very basic, nothing like you'd expect from a compiler even from the dragon book. So simple and it was a production compiler too! Sadly I can't remember the name of it to reference here. |
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A few years later, I was at a C++ conference where they asked me to sit on an "Ask us anything" panel. I was there along with the developers of Microsoft C, Borland C, etc.
The first question was "do you still ship a version of your compiler that will run on a floppy disk system?"
Vendor 1 said sure, and launched into a long description of how the files could be shuffled about on the floppy to make it work.
Vendor 2 said sure, and launched into ...
My turn. I said sure, and said the floppy disk version costs $200 and comes with a hard disk drive. (That was the price of a hard disk in those days.)
That was the end of that, I never heard that question again from anybody.
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