• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Forget that, most of the first computers were women.

    Google it. A ‘computer’ was a person employed to perform computations, and was a profession which generally employed women

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      1 year ago

      And this is the reason people in IT often refer to computers as “machines”, because at some point they started to replace the people doing the computations, and they needed to differentiate.

      (At least that’s the story I’ve heard)

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          1 year ago

          Virtualization came a fair bit later, but this might explain why they are called Virtual Machines and not Virtual Computers?