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Right. Because 40 year old UNIX is equivalent to the behemoth a Full-fledged 2020 desktop/Notebook operating system. There’s probably millions of bits and byte
by Longhanks 6y ago
Right. Because 40 year old UNIX is equivalent to the behemoth a Full-fledged 2020 desktop/Notebook operating system.
There’s probably millions of bits and bytes that are not trivially portable and more for a single person to even grasp an overview of in his or her lifetime. There were assumedly tens of thousands of software engineers involved.
But „it’s not remarkable“. Yeah.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't take threads further into flamewar or break the site guidelines by being snarky. You have a good point here but it's important to make your substantive points thoughtfully. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- coliveira 6y agoNot really. For another example, look at Debian Linux. They have several million lines of code supported on multiple architectures. And Apple didn't do this from one day to the next, they have the OS running on ARM CPUs in one version or another for more than 10 years.