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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Fri,  8 Jul 2011 10:34:32 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms
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> it's interesting
> to do a line count on some of the linux drivers.  they tend toward
> many tens of kloc.

This is just history repeating itself.  When I first encountered Unix
(6th edition) after working in the IBM mainframe world, my reaction
was "Amazing!  the whole Unix kernel has fewer lines of code than the
OS/360 serial line driver."