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Old 09-14-2014, 12:48 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
I couldn't imagine developing something like calibre as a mostly one man project twenty years ago.
Certainly not if it was multi-platform, it was hard enough getting things to run on PC-DOS, MS-DOS and DR-DOS on a common hardware base

Not all projects were big manpower-wise tho', we did some pretty cool stuff with small teams. In one case with 2 guys in Bangalore, 3-5 in Singapore and 3 in Honolulu on a patient monitoring system. There were no frequent flyer points then, if there had of been I'd still have some in the bank

The first Moscow Stock Exchange was developed by a handful of people, the PM got killed in a plane crash in Siberia on his way to a parallel project in Shanghai

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