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There were hardly any free compiler toolchains outside the UNIX world in the 80's. But it's not the 80's anymore, time has moved on.

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Every micro in the early 1980s came with BASIC except for a few very early ones that only had a front panel machine language monitor.

I remember C compilers costing $1000 in the 90's, before GNU software compiled with GCC came along to disrupt that nonsense.

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