Well, for us back then the only ways to lay hands on a good C compiler - except buying some extremely expensive proprietary software we could not afford (we all

Well, for us back then the only ways to lay hands on a good C compiler - except buying some extremely expensive proprietary software we could not afford (we all were under 20 and w/o regular income) - would have been via not-so-official channels (no comment...) and in the end more of a pain than it was worth it. For me at least, therefor, it was far more easier to develop on an Atari and then a Linux PC than it ever was for Apple's machines (before OSX).