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On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:33:23 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> The closest I ever came to using an IDE was the symbolic debugger that
> came with Lattice C for MS-DOS.  Simple, effective... and gone.

I missed that one although I did use MS C after they bought Lattice and 
developed it further. I will say for its era Microsoft C had excellent 
hard copy documentation.