MikeT
2008-04-25 12:53:00
The part about a full business app in 8k reminds me of the gripes I hear from grizzled old engineers about how many lines of code are in modern software. “Why back in my day, a full Unix kernel was 10,000 lines of code and that was good enough for everyone!” Yes, if your greatest ambition is to have a basic file system, resource management and barely have multi-user support. In other words, a drop in the bucket compared to what a modern OS is expected to provide from robust driver APIs, to pluggable file systems, to 3d-accelerated desktops, to network security…
