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Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language
M-Saunders (706738) writes "It weighed 13 tons, had 5,200 vacuum tubes, and took up a whole garage, but the UNIVAC I was an incredible machine for its time. Memory was provided by tanks of liquid mercury, while the clock speed was a whopping 2.25 MHz. The UNIVAC I was one of the first commercial general-purpose computers produced, with 46 shipped, and Linux Voice has taken an in-depth look at it. Learn its fascinating instruction set, and also check out FLOW-MATIC, the first English-language data processing language created by American computing pioneer Grace Hopper."
It always seems to come from people who were born into wealth or privilege.
Okay, so straight in with the ad-homs, right.
It's very much like "slaves got free food and shelter, so what were they complaining about argument".
Aaand we're off. Women as historical slaves. Let's take a closer look at that, shall we?
If the woman was a slave, that would make the man the mint julep sippin' massa, right? Except was there ever one single white slave owner who ever died to save the lives of his black slaves? Who ever gave up a space in a lifeboat to his black slave and chose to go down with a ship in their stead? Who ever stood with a rifle between his black slaves and an enemy to defend their lives, rather than his right to own them?
Can you even imagine a white slave owner working 16 hours in a field while his black slave stayed inside most of the day and kept his house tidy, then coming home and sharing the fruits of his labors with his black slave?
Did a black woman who was the sexual partner of a white slave owner have any expectation of respect, lifelong provision or shelter, or of sharing the benefits of his quality of life and his social status? Or was she just an object of the moment, free to be used and cast aside at will? Did a black man who was obligated to obey his owner's wife have any legal right or recourse when she pointed a finger and claimed he raped her? Or was he swinging from a tree within hours?
Yeah, women weren't slaves (except the ones that were actual slaves of course) and it's pretty horrifyingly racist that someone would diminish the experiences of actual slaves by such a comparison.
Did you notice that the list of privileges you laid out are all in relation to a husband?
Yes, that was the point I was making. Wives in comparison to husbands, people of equivalent social status except one has more priveleges than the other, and it turns out that it wasn't the husband. This came from a woman of the time incidentally, and an awful lot of women agreed with her. Of course they were probably also incensed at the attitudes of the suffragettes towards poor folk and those of colour.
For almost all women before the 1960's the only possible comfortable life was by having a husband.
So any unmarried women rapidly died off in poverty?
People in power had absolutely no problem with refusing jobs, loans, or admittance to anything by saying to her face "no, you're a female, this is for men ". Trust me on this; I was there.
And do you think that was because they hated women or didn't want to have to deal with long absences if she got pregnant? There's usually a practical reason for all of this stuff once you scratch the surface and dispense with the hysterics.
Almost no University or medical school (except women's colleges) would accept her as a student unless she was a blood relative of a faculty member or wealthy donor.
Which applied to men also. Third level education was for rich people back then.
yes, I know there were a few exceptions and those were EXCEPTIONS, so don't give us any examples of someone who got in.
Okay, so you know you're wrong and don't want to hear that. At least you admitted it up front I guess.
Almost no bank would grant a loan for business or property without the written permission of her husband, unless she was a blood relative of one of the bank's officers.
I'm self employed and the banks won't give me a loan for property because of the erratic nature of being self employed. The banks don't hate me or treat me this way because of my gender, they just weigh up the chances of getting their money back and decide they can do better elsewhere. Trying to paint this as misogyny or misandry is ridiculous.
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