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What's more, this is growing ever more true by the year, as the number of different 'standards', computer and mobile device models, peripherals, and design concepts continues to expand.
It was one thing for someone like Dennis Ritchie, Richard Greenblatt, Gary Kildall, or Steve Wozniak to write a simple OS for hardware which was relatively straight-forward in comparison to current machines, which they already knew intimately, and which had no standards specifications to adhere to or existing cruft to maintain backwards compatibility with. This is no longer true on current-generation stock hardware. Furthermore, each of them was already a seasoned engineer who had already done years of systems programming. Even then, they only provided the foundations for the systems; the bulk of the work was done by small armies of subordinate developers after the nucleus of the system - the kernel, in modern jargon - was in place.
There are exceptions to this rule, but not many; don't expect yourself to be that one in a thousand.
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