> THE THIRTY-MILLION-LINE PROBLEM It starts from a wrong premise that nobody knows what all this code does and goes off the rails further down. 90% is drivers

> THE THIRTY-MILLION-LINE PROBLEM It starts from a wrong premise that nobody knows what all this code does and goes off the rails further down. 90% is drivers for millions of hardware SKUs. Author intentionally ignores a fact that 80-90es world didn't have such selection and thus was immensely simpler to ship your applications. OS is not a problem.