Started off writing a typesetting system in BCPL on a PDP-11 with our own custom hardware for display and our own protocol for sending information around with no internet to look things up and a fine of donuts for the team if you blew an overlay with too much code in it which caused hours of downtime. Then Sun workstations came out and we ported everything to C and productivity increased and WYSIWG became possible.
No concept of unit testing, integration testing or CI - customer support gave things a quick look over and the program got sent out so we always scheduled a 2 week Bug Blitz to deal with all the issues that the customers found.
Small company, salary was good, regular hours and a challenging environment with all the rapid tech changes
No concept of unit testing, integration testing or CI - customer support gave things a quick look over and the program got sent out so we always scheduled a 2 week Bug Blitz to deal with all the issues that the customers found.
Small company, salary was good, regular hours and a challenging environment with all the rapid tech changes