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TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace.
(www.britannica.com)
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It's also to differentiate the physical hardware from e.g. a VM with a given chunk of compute that you've rented from a cloud provider.
In other words, one "machine" may host more than one "system" or "instance", so it's a useful bit of differentiation on that end as well.