[ruyvalle]

guess I misunderstood your question, and also went on a bit of a rant.

morphle said "you can write a complete operating system and all the functionality of the mayor apps (word processing, graphics, spreadsheets, social media, WYSIWYG, browsers) and the hardware it runs on in less than 20000 lines of (high level language) code. They achieved it a few times before in 10000 lines (Smalltalk-80 and earlier versions), a little over 20000 (Frank) and 300000 lines (Squeak/Etoys/Croquet) and a few programmers in a few years."

to which you replied "did they?"

to which I replied something along the lines of "you can take a look at Smalltalk systems" to answer your question. to clarify, I meant you can look at what the extent of what they were capable of is, and look at their code. which, again, to me is a bit apples to oranges, but is nonetheless something that ought not to be dismissed.

thanks for the links btw!

[kragen]

Thanks for alerting me to morphle's clarifying edit! I've answered it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332195

The summary is: no, they didn't.