interesting discovery

From: Mirian Crzig Lennox <lennox_at_nospam.org>
Date: Wed Apr 28 1999 - 09:31:17 PDT

I made an interesting discovery today... I happened to be reading
through the Lions book on 6th edition UNIX (which is happily now
available for purchase at fine computer bookstores everywhere), and
came across the assertion, in the introduction, that 10,000 lines
represents the upper bound for a body of to be understood and
maintained by one person.

If you do a wc -l on /vsta/src/os/kern/* you'll see that VSTa is just
about that much (10590 to be exact, on my system). The entire
/vsta/src/os/ tree tops out at just over 20,000.

I think that's pretty cool.

-- 
Mirian Crzig Lennox                                Systems Anarchist
  "Don't follow leaders... watch the parking meters."  --Bob Dylan
Received on Wed Apr 28 08:27:35 1999

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