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From: daleske@cbdkc1.UUCP ( John Daleske )
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: The origin of 'debugging'
Message-ID: <995@cbdkc1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 14:59:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.995
Posted: Wed Jun 12 14:59:16 1985
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Reply-To: daleske@dkc1.UUCP ( John Daleske )
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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Yes!  I have heard the Hopper story twice now.  She claims to have
entered the bug into the log with tape.

Another story she tells is how to visualize "time" within the
computer.  She sent a sailor our to get a milisecond one time.  The
sailor came back with a large roll of wire.  Then, they made some
microseconds.  The first time she told the story she held up some
nanoseconds (9 to 12" wires depending upon the propagation of the
electrons through the particular wire) which she gave out at the end
of the speech.

The second time she told the story, she also had the sailor get a
pepper grinder to make picoseconds relating to the microcycle times of
some of the machines now out!

John Daleske
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