A few years later, I was at a C++ conference where they asked me to sit on an "Ask us anything" panel. I was there along with the developers of Microsoft C, Borland C, etc.

The first question was "do you still ship a version of your compiler that will run on a floppy disk system?"

Vendor 1 said sure, and launched into a long description of how the files could be shuffled about on the floppy to make it work.

Vendor 2 said sure, and launched into ...

My turn. I said sure, and said the floppy disk version costs $200 and comes with a hard disk drive. (That was the price of a hard disk in those days.)

That was the end of that, I never heard that question again from anybody.

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