Hi Roy! :-)

 PS>> Well, there were also regular floppy drives for the C64. I had one,
 PS>> but they used one of the other ports of the machine. ;)
 RJT> Yeah,  the 1541,  which gave new meaning to the word "slow"... :-)
I had a 1541-II. The drives themselves were not too bad, but Commodore was
playing it awfully safe with the protocol. I used an accelerator module for
the expansion port than took control over the floppy routines - the speedup
for floppy operations was considerable.

 PS>> For bigger projects, the fact that make only rebuilds what needs 
 PS>> to be rebuilt is a big plus during development.
 RJT> That was my original understanding of what they were good for.  I 
 RJT> also would think that this was more of an issue when machines were 
 RJT> slower than they are now.  I remember Bob saying something about 
 RJT> having a whole 80M drive to work with,  and wishing I had one at the 
 RJT> time.  :-)
It doesn't really matter how fast your machine is - recompiling just one
file and then linking 10 .o files into one executable is always faster than
recompiling 10 files and then linking them. You would write a script for
that anyway if you don't want to risk forgetting to recompile a file, so
why not go the whole way and write a makefile.

Ciao
Pascal

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