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It makes development so much more fun when you see the results right away.

Pressing "build" in Turbo Pascal on my 386sx it was already done before you could even perceive any delay. Instant.

I think Turbo Pascal had the capability of generating code directly to memory without generating disk files.

It did that on floppy based systems too. The '87 equipped pcs in the physics building were much faster at 4500 line project, which I worked on for a year. So... First thing to test on a new 33Mhz 386 w/ wolf3d (install only, no source) my project loaded and 33mhz itt 387. Less than 2 seconds. If you brought everything into the ide,and hit run... It screamed.

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