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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Zombie9920 on 11 February 2003, 12:46

Title: Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold Part 2 : Developing Windows
Post by: Zombie9920 on 11 February 2003, 12:46

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winserver2k3_gold2.asp (http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winserver2k3_gold2.asp)

Title: Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold Part 2 : Developing Windows
Post by: shuiend on 11 February 2003, 15:09

that was an extreamly long and boring read. They say this is the biggest project everdone with 50+million lines of code. Who the hell does it take to write an OS that needs 50+million lines of code. And the fucking compile time is horrible912 hours) You will most definately never see this near any machine i own.

Title: Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold Part 2 : Developing Windows
Post by: lazygamer on 11 February 2003, 23:51

50 million lines of code + 5000 developers=What a mess!  (http://smile.gif)

How many lines of code does Linux have though? Isn't it susposed to be pretty massive as well?

Title: Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold Part 2 : Developing Windows
Post by: slave on 12 February 2003, 02:21

KDE 3.1 has 2.6 million lines of code.  The Linux kernel has about 1.5 million lines of code in it.  A whole linux distribution probably has 100+ million lines of code.

Title: Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold Part 2 : Developing Windows
Post by: Pantso on 12 February 2003, 04:22

When it comes to OSes (and only then   :D  ) smaller is definitely better. That is the philosophy UNIX was based upon, as well as all of its descendants. If you don't believe me, take a look at the Multics fiasco.   ;)

Title: Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold Part 2 : Developing Windows
Post by: SAJChurchey on 13 February 2003, 07:09

The amazing thing is that to the general public.  50+ million lines of code sounds like an amazing piece of technology.

It's slow as shit.

Title: Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold Part 2 : Developing Windows
Post by: ForceSphere on 13 February 2003, 07:17

50 some million lines of code, I bet that has no errors.