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Remember when you had to go to a store to plunk down some serious cash to get something like a C compiler and an editor?
I wondered if that was still true so I checked Microcenter's site. The closest approximation was some web design software.
EMACS came out in 1976
gcc came out in 1987
Hey everybody, raise your hand if ran emacs or gcc on a home computer, even as late as 1987 ...
Hell, even then it was unusual.
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I'd gotten my first taste of VMS around then.
But yeah, anyone running this stuff at home until the mid 90s was unusual enough to be the exception that proves the rule.