Eric S. Raymond Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• 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

  Different, Machines, Faces

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

• 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

  Technology, Different, Machines

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

• 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

  Home, Talking, Years

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.13, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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