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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Origin of "debug"
Message-ID: <626@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 11:03:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 11:03:52 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 07:16:12 EST
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Quote from November, 1934 Scientific American:
  "...the cathode-ray tube is proving to have many `bugs' to overcome."

This tends to discount all the stories of the origin of the term `debuggin'
that we've heard concerning the moth in the computer.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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