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How Big Is VMS?

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77 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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whartung ◴[04 Apr 25 02:22 UTC] No.43577680[source]▶
Does it seem right that ACPI alone is almost 9% of the LOC in this code base? At over 165K lines?

Mind, I honestly don't know anything about the details of ACPI.

But, seems like a lot to me.

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1. p_l ◴[04 Apr 25 11:08 UTC] No.43580554[source]▶
Remember that there aren't as many drivers in VMS core as in Linux (were just amd DRM driver dwarfs some older kernel versions), and ACPI for all its complexity also handles as portability layer between a lot of differences that in VMS' past involved having to release an entire special release of the system just to get it to boot, now covered by ACPI support.

Also, we don't know how much of that is test code, samples (for testing, for example)