"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."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Technology as articulated by Eric S. Raymond. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Technology provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

About Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, published as The New Hacker's Dictionary.

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