Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 PS> 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"... :-)

 PS> I had a 1541-II. The drives themselves were not too bad, but
 PS> Commodore was playing it awfully safe with the protocol. I used an
 PS> accelerator module for the expansion port than took control over
 PS> the floppy routines - the speedup for floppy operations was
 PS> considerable.

I remember installing a couple of different setups to speed those up...

 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.  :-)

 PS> It doesn't really matter how fast your machine is - recompiling
 PS> just one file and then linking 10 .o files into one executable is
 PS> always faster than recompiling 10 files and then linking them.

Sure.

 PS> You would write a script for that anyway if you don't want to risk
 PS> forgetting to recompile a file, so why not go the whole way and
 PS> write a makefile.

Something else to learn...    :-)

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