[Poohbah]

The computer system is very elaborate, having over 250,000 lines of code.

Ah, such a simpler era...

250K lines of code probably wouldn't make a decent spreadsheet program these days.

[theFIRMbss]

>250K lines of code probably wouldn't make a decent spreadsheet program these days.

Yes, well, remember
one of the big arguments
for a big OS

integrated to
a graphic interface was
that all the shared code

would allow user
programs to get much smaller!
(If we all used FORTH...)