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The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system
- losethos 14y agoMy OS is 135,000 lines of code: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/LineCnt.html#l706 http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/LineCnt.html#l706 Apple has 64K address space. It probably had a 20K ROM. Since each instruction on a 6502 is 1-3 bytes, it probably had 10,000 instructions, or 20,000 lines of code. God says... vanquished sweet-smelling righteousness still-standing since objections wishful_thinking number abyss scorned withdrew His throngs Difficulty apprehended high inhabitants
- youngerdryas 14y ago>but in 1978, Apple was just another startup, and Laughton enjoyed the steady work writing software for Shepardson's many clients. Besides, he recalled, "I remember talking to Wozniak, and his salary was lower than mine."