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| Tomorokoshi:
--- Quote from: BrianHG on July 22, 2022, 09:46:26 pm ---I tried C on my firs Amiga with a 68000 processor, 2.5mb ram and a super slow HD. No way, too long to compile. (1989ish) I tried again when I got my 25MHz 68030 Amiga 3000 with 10mb ram and a top performance 7200 RPM SCSI HD. (1993ish) Ok, now I was hooked as compiling time was actually good. Though a lot of code was copy & paste modified examples from existing source code with my algorithms in-between. I didn't delve deeper into a modern C compiler until I had access to a C compiler for Microchip MCUs and had to do a DSPIC project for my exercise bike controller. Then it was more fun as compile times were only around 2 seconds. --- End quote --- Yes, I had have Lattice C on the Amiga 3000. |
| SiliconWizard:
That's funny. I had a Mac Plus at some point with 2.5MB RAM and Think C, and it was perfectly usable. |
| DiTBho:
From my university experiences, I remember that gcc-v2.95 was decently usable on an HP 712 @ 100Mhz with 192 MBytes of ram and HPUX v10.20 :-// |
| DiTBho:
what good memories ... when C was "the other language", one step over from Basic, times when X11 didn't even start, rebuilding the kernel (2.0..2.2) took two days, and getting X11 decently working took up to two months on a i486 with a bloody ET4000 ... And people felt lucky when they managed to successfully install gcc-v2.95, learn enough about C to hack and compile nedit to run it on Xmotif :o :o :o |
| Sal Ammoniac:
My copy of the first edition of The C Programming Language is signed by DMR. |
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