Labels:text | screenshot OCR: Telecomms Miles of Code Others ATM Strategic Defence Initiative 20 “(SDI)) SDH Control Centre System X Encyclopaedia Britannica Nuclear J'enctor Space shuttle Small X Shakespeare TXE 10 1 Man's limit Figure 1 - Examples of Foster's metric. It is a measure of software size: length of a program when printed on standard line printer pages (400 000 lines of code is equivalent to one mile of continuous paper).