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> > [...] at only 9,000 lines, Unix v6 was tractable, people continued to study it (and maybe still do), and the famous comment lived on.

Wow, Unix is a work of art. I have hobby projects at 2x SLoC which are literally just small web services :(



I wonder how many lines of code were behind the QNX demo disk?

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html


Kernel + include files: about 10Kloc

File system: about 15Kloc

Network driver + IP stack: about 10 Kloc

Task manager, posix compatible libc odds and ends, maybe another 50Kloc, Graphics driver: 10Kloc, window manager 2500 lines.

So not that bad, you could do it by yourself in about 2 years of hard work, probably less than that if you use a VM instead of actual hardware if you're a halfway competent programmer. I've done it.


I wonder the same about the GeoWorks DOS version of America Online




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