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SQLite is three people, which is probably better than one because you do want to bounce ideas off people.

Not sure about Unix… it's gone through a lot at this point and obviously it's a committee now.



The original Unix is also about 5 people, with Ken Thompson being largely credited with the general design.

Of course, later the decoherence increased; I'd say that the adoption of Berkeley Sockets is one of the inflection points where severely different architectural principles came into play.




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