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Firsts Quotes by Eric S. Raymond
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.
- On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will…
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