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Hmm... I thinks this is what I used to learn C - on an Amiga. Oh, the memories... ... most of them about waiting for the disk to finish reading just to run o
by zibzab 5y ago
Hmm... I thinks this is what I used to learn C - on an Amiga.
Oh, the memories...
... most of them about waiting for the disk to finish reading just to run out of memory thanks to Intuitions.h being such a beast. I think one of my first real C programs was a pre-processor and minimiser for the amiga UI header files.
- icedchai 5y agoI had Lattice (later SAS/C) myself. Luckily I had a hard drive (30 megs!), which was a total luxury for the time, 1989-90 or so.
- mpweiher 5y ago2MB Fast RAM expansion with reset-proof RAM disk. In the morning, load all the diskettes. After that...vroooom! :-) HD-based Unix systems were a bit of a let-down, to be frank...
- ithkuil 5y agoI remember trying to use a C compiler on my Amiga but IIRC it was such a pain to use with only one floppy drive and no hard drive (and 512KB RAM). My mom wouldn't buy me a second floppy drive (let alone a hard drive) because she thought this computer thing was just a toy, so I switched using assembly. Programming the Amiga with a good macro assembler was actually a surprisingly good experience. The official documentation of the various system libraries was clearly explained in terms of the underlying ABI, almost as if it was expected for people to reach out to assembly to write applications.