Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:01:48 +0100 | From | Adam Lock <> | Subject | Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture. |
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"Michael B. Trausch" wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > 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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