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   Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 05:51:04 JST Robert McNees

   Lynn Conway, electricial engineer and computer scientist, co-architect of the VLSI design revolution, and transgender activist, was born #OTD in 1938.

   She invented Dynamic Instruction Scheduling at IBM, but IBM fired her when they learned she was transitioning.

   Photo: Lynn Conway

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     Les capsules du prof Lutz (lutzray@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 13:51:34 JST Les capsules du prof Lutz

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     @mcnees Sophie Wilson, the designer of the ARM architecture, is also a trans woman :heart_trans: ✊ . And before, she conceived my first computer: the 1980 Acorn ATOM, which could run inlined 6502 assembly in its BASIC programs! :blobaww:

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     funz (funz@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:34:11 JST funz

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     @mcnees Nice comic strip from Sophie Labelle

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