Heh, where were you in 1983 when I needed a decent Z80 Compiler :-) (edit: oh this isn't C. Still, any compiler would have been a step up from asm) (I was at

Heh, where were you in 1983 when I needed a decent Z80 Compiler :-) (edit: oh this isn't C. Still, any compiler would have been a step up from asm) (I was at a small company doing mailing list processing for non-profit fundraising campaigns, on an IMSAI (upgraded to a Z80 and 24M hard drive) (no that's not a typo, it was huge by which I mean * it was split in to 3x 8M pseudo disks so it fit the CP/M filesystem limits * it was about the size of a pair of tower PCs tipped over and laid side-by-side ) and we were looking askance at IBM PCs in particular - not enough I/O, not faster - in observable ways, like WordStar had noticeable latency compared to the Z80 version - it was pretty easy to believe the gossip that "these were only moving in quantity because IBM was forcing their big customers to buy them", which was a popular theory it at the time. We were, with hindsight, entirely wrong :-)