Résumé
Miyaoka proved that a smooth surface of degree $d$ in ${\mathbf{P}}^3({\mathbb{C}})$ contains at most $2d(d-2)$ pairwise disjoint lines. In this note, we verify that the Maschke octic contains $96$ pairwise disjoint lines, thereby proving that Miyaoka's bound is optimal for $d=8$.