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![davepl1968 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::158808511.png) Dave W Plummer [@davepl1968](/creator/twitter/davepl1968) on x 72.4K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 17:32:29 UTC

@hquest Usually, you'd take up juggling or some other way to kill the time.

Once we had multitasking systems, though, you can continue to do work (editing, etc) while compiling.  But on a micro or MS-DOS PC, your machine was all in when assembling code and you had to wait on it.


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