Peter Nachtwey
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I can relate to that. My first job out of the navy was programming embedded systems. Not PLCs. I said the boss radiated impatientness. Back in 1980 we had 8 inch floppies and 8080 micro controllers for compiling programs. It sometiems took 15-30 minutes to compile a big program. You could hear the heads of the floppy drives go up and down as it switch from floppy A, which had the system and all of the development tools" to floppy B which had the source code and the complied .obj files and image files that were eventually burned into E-PROMS. Each E-PROM took about 3-5 minutes to burn and there were often 8 of them.- Being able to handle 10 people looking over your shoulder while you try to figure out why the machine stopped, or wont start.
You guys don't know how good you have it.