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SubjectRe: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture.
"Michael B. Trausch" wrote:

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> On 20 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Linux started out as 10k lines of code. Was that good? It's not 1.5M
> > lines of code. Is that bad?
> >
>
> I think that the fact that you're getting the OS into 1.5 million lines of
> code is great; look at Windows. Microsoft stated at one point that they
> had up to 11 million lines of code in Windows 95-A. Ouch... try that one
> on for size. I'd hate to see how many gigabytes their source tree takes
> up.

Yes but is that figure for just the kernel or for the whole OS? I expect it is
the latter.
--
Adam Lock



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