Re: Past Blast - "Wonder Woman 1984" - Corp Guy Using PET

On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 11:20:32 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 05/04/2025 07:00, c186282 wrote:

Oh, I remember ... those "big name" compilers were
   gawdawfully EXPENSIVE. Most people, even small biz,
   just couldn't AFFORD them .

dam sight cheaper than the computer they ran on then.
Out of reach of hobbyists, yes, but not small companies, and there was
no copy protection :-)

Depends on the small company. I wrote a MCS-48 cross assembler when my
manager balked at the cost of the official PDP-11 version. It wasn't a
sophisticated macro assembler but it got the job done on my CP/M box.