Her analogy is in the context of her larger topic of systems of computers, and I think history has largely proven out her advocated approach. She highlights a c

Her analogy is in the context of her larger topic of systems of computers, and I think history has largely proven out her advocated approach. She highlights a case of trying to cram a multi-user time sharing system, security system, database and actual programs all onto a single large computer, and contrasts this with having a separate system managing multiple user access, a separate system managing the database, and individual systems managing each application. Which sounds a lot like a firewall/gateway + Postgres server + API server + reporting server + etc + etc setup that is pretty much the design of every major system I've worked on. Yes, to a small degree, we sort of cram these things back into a single box these days by way of virtualization, but it's pretty rare to see a system where everything is running on the same machine, under the same OS like Admiral Hopper would have been talking about at the time.