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In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Almost Early Fortunes Grounds Hacker Had Hostile Might Observer Out Played Story Thinking Tribe Unix

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The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Computer First Network

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In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Beginning In The Beginning Programmers Real Were

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The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Acquired Beginnings Culture Dated First Hacker Know Mit Today Year

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Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Among Become Been Could Different Different Types Enough Entire Environment First Good Had Hardware Machines Operating Operating System Realize Ritchie Several Successfully System Technology Thompson Types Were Whole Written

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If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Capabilities Common Could Different Different Types Environment Face Machines Many Present Same Serve Software Them Types Unix

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The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Built Hackers Machines New Opened Others Sun Up Worlds

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A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Able Accordance Away Critical Developers Distribute Ethic Factor Free Give Hacker Internet Over Sources Success Them Were Willing

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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Against Berkeley Corporate Empires Hackers Liked Rebels See Soulless Themselves

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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Afford Capable Capacity Comparable Could Development Earlier Engines Environment First First Time Full Hackers Home Individual Internet Machines Power Storage Supporting Talking Ten Ten Years Time Unix Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 4th, 1957

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