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by bombcar 124 days ago
It's also important to remember that a ton of things we take for granted now simply didn't exist (source code control was in its infancy, merging was shit, syntax highlighting was minimal at best, compiling took time, etc).
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jen20 123 days ago
Source control was in infancy compared to today, but still 15 years old (SCCS) when Windows NT development started!
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anthk 123 days ago
Not with Borland products. Even XEmacs and Emacs had these features (code control was with CVS or close).
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bombcar 123 days ago
CVS and RCS and friends were infants; barely more than copying directories or zip files around.

Complex merging as we're used to with git was unheard of.

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