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Same here, good memories, compiling took up to 30 minutes, so during compiling we always went for a game of billiards. Coming back you found out that the compilation had crashed after 5 minutes, fix bug and start the same routine.

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I don’t recall compilation being slow. The Clipper app for small businesses that my father created used overlays because it couldn’t fit in memory, yet compilation was still fast (all of this was happening on an XT). Linking, on the other hand, was painfully slow, but one could use Turbo Linker if overlays weren’t needed—TL was unbelievably fast. Later, Blinker came along. It was slower than TL but offered excellent support for overlays (and a bunch of other useful features) while still being much faster than MS Linker.

Overlays were supported even in Turbo Pascal 3.x, which, IIRC, came out in the same decade as Clipper, maybe before or around the same time.

I used Clipper Summer '87, and Clipper 5.x on a 386SX, running at 20MHz, 2 MB, and a 40 MB HDD.

What were you doing for 30 minutes?!?

You sure it wasn’t a DX? The SX only came out in ‘88.

Either way, that would be a hell of a high end system for that time.

I think you just showed lack of knowledge on Clipper product names.

Before 5, they had season names, I didn't mention to be using Clipper Summer '87 in 1987, rather having used it.

Sorry, I misunderstood then!

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