>The software at that time was just much smaller. Do go check the code: https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html This is both

>The software at that time was just much smaller. Do go check the code: https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html This is both bigger and more complex than most stuff people work on today (which is glorified glue code for bullshit CRUD/REST/etc). It might be smaller than the overall LoC of their project, but it's more than the units they deal with (and this is part of an overal OS code anyway). This is a whole "manager, to manage file description information. It had to transport the file information between disk and memory, manage a shared memory buffer pool, and manage space on disk for the information." Dare most current programmers to write such a thing, with the requirements and semantics it has on his version, today, in their language of choice. Most would be lost at even contemplating that. Much less write it in paper and type it in and have it work.