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Slothie · 18th Apr 2021, 6:35 pm

I do recall back in the day while I was at university, one of my fellow students was developing an editor in C for the Beeb, and the compiler he had ran off the floppy drive and you could compile from source on the disk and it would grind and churn that floppy for hours while it compiled!

18th Apr 2021, 6:35 pm	#22
Slothie Octode Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Newbury, Berkshire, UK. Posts: 1,287	Re: PCB design -- on a BBC Micro! I do recall back in the day while I was at university, one of my fellow students was developing an editor in C for the Beeb, and the compiler he had ran off the floppy drive and you could compile from source on the disk and it would grind and churn that floppy for hours while it compiled!