Just a thought - Just imagine if we still a 8" floppies and you had to order VS 2012 on them.
It would cause a bit of a stir when a semi pulls up to make the delivery.
Just imagine getting to disk 2258 during an install and finding that it was faulty.

>>Wasn't Turbo Pascal the real groundbreaker from Borland?
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>Yep - bought it for my CP/M system. Compile and link in one operation. Small enough to fit on a single 240K 8" floppy, with space left over for your programs. So you didn't have to swap disks between your user files and the compiler/linker.
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>A friend had a copy of Microsoft Pascal for CP/M, which came on multiple floppies for both the compile and link steps. You had to swap floppies a bunch of times to compile and link. And it was brutally slow compared to Turbo Pascal.
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>Those were the days when advances from month to month could yield near orders-of-magnitude improvements in productivity and performance. They truly were "revolutionary".