I remember in college in the mid 80s trying to get something to work on one of the Apple IIs in the library in BASIC, only to discover that my earlier experienc

I remember in college in the mid 80s trying to get something to work on one of the Apple IIs in the library in BASIC, only to discover that my earlier experience with the disk based interpreter supported 6 char names, but the ROM based interpreter only recognized the first 2 chars, but would accept longer names it would not differentiate. Hilarity ensues... And, yeah, I also did a lot of XBase in the late 80s, though usually "Clipper", rather than "Fox". Batch files made a decent build process, and you could be disciplined with regular arc/zip files for source - not too unlike "make clean" and svn. We certainly had a lot of cruddy manual processes otherwise back then, though.