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No, you're wrong. I was there. It was mostly guys, but there were plenty of women as well. Radia Perlman, to name just one famous one. I recall another from Law
by AlbertCory 2y ago
No, you're wrong. I was there. It was mostly guys, but there were plenty of women as well. Radia Perlman, to name just one famous one. I recall another from Lawrence Livermore whom I met at an IETF. I went to grad school with several of them.
There certainly is a lot of woke revisionist BS around. No doubt about that.
Edit: in my current book "This New Internet Thing" one of the characters, Cassie, wants to adopt a child as a single woman. I got advice on that process by Heidi Buelow (RIP), who was last at Oracle but worked on the Xerox Star, and adopted two children of her own (Cassie is not modeled on Heidi, except for that). Heidi unfortunately died while I was writing it, and I can't find any online obituary on her.
Since we're talking about "back in the day" naturally some of those people have crossed the Great Divide. You can find a few women in here as well:
https://decconnection.org/memorials.htm https://decconnection.org/memorials.htm
Not a lot, of course. But not none.