MSDOS Source code leaked

[Bob]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:49:48 -0400, Michael Kerpan wrote:

>My lord, that's a HUGE wad of code for something as simple as
>MS-DOS... How the HECK can an OS that fits on a floppy with room to
>spare have 20 megs of ASM source. Does the wad include the tools that
>M$ ripped off like Doublespace and the like?

Once upon a time, the idea was to take a huge amount of logic documented by 
vast amounts of source code to produce a very small piece of binary object 
code, optimized to do the task.

Today it take very few lines of source code to link into many megs of object code.

Why ? Because we became lazy and adopted the use of cascadeing libarys.

The other Bob