Home computers didn't ship with compilers either. On an Atari ST you had the option to get a commercial C-Compiler from DRI and Megamax. The DRI compiler suite

Home computers didn't ship with compilers either. On an Atari ST you had the option to get a commercial C-Compiler from DRI and Megamax. The DRI compiler suite required you to disc-jockey multiple floppies to compile (in two stages), and then link the final executable, where intermediate object files had to be stored on floppies as well. RAM disks only helped so much on 1024 or 512 KB RAM.