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by JoeAltmaier 2202 days ago
Talking about a handful of people - in the 80's we created the CTOS operating system and desktop computers (pre-dated the IBM PC). The whole OS, through the entirety of its existence, was worked on by 12 people.

The entire support organization was much larger. In Japan for instance, it was sold and supported through an organization of 1200 people. I always marveled at that - there were 100+ support people just for the work I did.