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[Nigel Johnson Ham]

Hit Compile?

In my first job, it was triggered by the EOJ card!


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, ....
>