I remember reading a story about writing games in the 80's, and the programmers were all using some powerful timeshare system, but during the workday it slowed

I remember reading a story about writing games in the 80's, and the programmers were all using some powerful timeshare system, but during the workday it slowed to a crawl as everyone compiled their code. It was far more productive to just write/run code on a dedicated Atari/C64 or whatever the target system was.