[Info-vax] How things have changed (was Re: VMS 8.4-2L1 on AXPBox)

Marc Van Dyck marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be
Mon Jan 4 12:08:42 EST 2021


It happens that Hunter Goatley formulated :
> On 1/1/2021 7:14 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> But then, speed
>> wasn't the problem.  I started in this business when a compile was
>> a good time to go out for lunch.
>
>
> When I first started working for Clyde Digital Systems in February 1987, I 
> was surprised to see several bookcases full of science fiction and fantasy 
> novels scattered around the programmers' area.
>
> I understood why when I learned that the six developers were all using one 
> VAX 11/730 for all development work. The 11/730 was painful for a single 
> user, but multiple builds? The guys would start a build, then kick back with 
> a novel and read for an hour or two.
>
> I couldn't handle that for long, so I started---without permission---using 
> the company's business-side VAX 11/750 for my development work. That flew by 
> comparison, but was still a far cry from the VAX 11/785 I had been used to 
> using at WKU.
>
> Hunter

Yup... to the point that, on my first job, in order to avoid builds
during the day (we had one every night), for small modifications, we
would compile /MACHINE_CODE, and then use the compiler listing to PATCH
the modification directly in the existing executable. Was way faster,
even considering mistakes...

-- 
Marc Van Dyck



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