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> This made it probably the slowest assembler in the world - my largest programs would take 10 minutes or more of disk chunking before they could be assembled.
by kwhitefoot 3y ago
> This made it probably the slowest assembler in the world - my largest programs would take 10 minutes or more of disk chunking before they could be assembled.
I can beat that.
In the early 80s I was designing and programming 6502 based controllers for UPSs. The code filled an 8 kByte EPROM and took 45 minutes to assemble on an Apple II.