toothpaste_sandwich comments on TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.

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[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Wow, that's wild. First time I've heard that. So a Virtual Machine is an instance of this?

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[–] 4z01235@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 3 points 3 years ago

That's what I meant, yes!

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