3 Jan
2022
3 Jan
'22
11:41 a.m.
On 2022-01-03 2:37 p.m., Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote:
Hit Compile?
In my first job, it was triggered by the EOJ card!
You had a COMPILER?
As far as I can see, these days the state of the art is to crash at
runtime for as many different stupid reasons as possible.
--T
(get off my lawn!)
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept!
Skype:? TILBURY2591nw.johnson at ieee.org
On 2022-01-03 13:47, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote:
> On 2022-01-03 13:19, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Compiling all the code for our product took the 11/750 6 hours to
>> compile and link plus an additional 2 hours for an 11/730 to link
>> under a different version of VMS.? 8 hours total to rebuild totally
>> from source.? Some things about the good old days weren't so good.
>
> Disagree here ;-)
> Before you hit compile, you switched your brain on, and thought for a
> while what you did.
>
> When I watch this kids in the office now pressing compile after each
> character they typed, ....
>