Timeline for How were bugs reported for compilers that were shipped on floppy disks?
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| S Mar 11, 2020 at 9:02 | history | suggested | Toby Speight | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2018 at 22:56 | comment | added | James Moore | Products definitely came on multiple CDs. Don't forget that multiple CDs isn't just about how much they can hold, it's also about independent revs of different parts of a product. If you keep sending out disk 1 & 2, but change disk 3, then QA has a lot less work to do. It's not like you have to fill them completely. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 15:50 | comment | added | Michael Shopsin | CodeWarrior came on multiple CDs because there was a lot of sample code, optional libraries, and documentation. I installed the subset of CodeWarrior I needed on my 250 MB hard disk from the CDs. Apple also shipped developer CDs much larger than the commonly available hard disk space in the 90s. | |
| May 20, 2017 at 10:36 | comment | added | user | An upgrade in the mid-1990s that took several CDs!? Surely you mean floppies? Several CDs would be gigabytes' worth of data, which would be HUGE at a time when hard disks were commonly in the hundreds of megabytes range, or a few gigabytes if you had more money than you knew how to spend. | |
| May 19, 2017 at 15:12 | history | answered | Michael Shopsin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |