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by ezekiel68 701 days ago
A true labor of love - much respect!

I owned an Amiga 2000 back in the day and learned the C programming language on it.

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Similar here! I learned C on an Amiga 500, Lattice C (renamed to SAS/C)...
I had SAS/C which came on 5 or 6 floppies and my A2000 had no hard disk at the time so compiling meant lots and lots of disk swapping and I used the RAM Disk a lot. Later, for a princely sum I recall being over a grand, I got a SCSI controller card and a massive 40mb hard drive which made the process so much more pleasant.
I crammed DICE C on a single floppy (or RAM disk!? can't remember) on an Amiga 500 tricked out with a full megabyte of RAM. :-D
Just 'cos I've found people don't know... the chap that wrote DICE...

http://aminet.net/package/dev/c/dice-3.16

... Matt Dillon is now the head of the Dragonfly BSD project:

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/team/

I too was and Amiga 500 nerd. Where I learned assembler and C.