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on the gender acceleration blackpaper
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There are some little bits of the Gender Acceleration Blackpaper on which I'd like to elaborate.
- "In 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower appoints MIT president James Killian as Presidential Assistant for Science and creates ARPA (later to become DARPA)."
- "Despite the consensus among academics at the time that computer science was essentially an oxymoron..."
- Even in the mid twentieth century it was clear that computers would change the world; they could execute complex mathematical operations near-instantly without error.
However I don't have a source for this (yet; TODO).
- "Ultimately, Multics development was scrapped by Bell Labs in 1969"
- "This new operating system would later be named Unix — phonetically, 'eunuchs' — for being a castrated Multics."
- "GNU was ultimately completed in 1991 with Linus Torvalds' development of the Linux kernel"
- Linus's Linux was not the first attempt at a Free kernel.
See the GNU HURD, which was originally intended to be the final puzzle piece to the complete GNU system; GNU+Linux systems, while Free, are not full GNU systems as originally intended.
- "Today, nearly the entirety of the Web runs on GNU/Linux"
- A technicality: it's a bit better to say "GNU+Linux" to communicate that one is running a GNU environment on top of the Linux kernel, in the same way one can run "GNU+FreeBSD" (a GNU system on top of FreeBSD).
This can disambiguate discussions of "GNU+Linux" (an operating system) from "GNU" (an organization or its operating environment) and "Linux" (a kernel).
But this is totally insignificant and pedantic to the point where it's meme fodder. Who cares.
- "almost every personal computing device in the world runs on Android, which is built on the Linux kernel"
- It should be noted that Android is Google capital.
The rest of the paper is of a more social aspect of which I don't believe I have much to say.