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I did a lot of C programming on an IBM XT - 8088, 10mb hard disk, WordStar and DeSmet C. All worked very well.

• nottorp 2y ago
  8088 was a 16 bit machine though. This is about machines with 64 kbytes of ram maximum, two floppy drives and no hard drive.
  • zabzonk 2y ago
    please see the comment i was replying to: >but I don't remember the PC being too important in C coding circles until the 386, much later.