From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Bugs or Mistakes?
Date: 1999/11/13
Date: 1999-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80jops$gpa$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: s2qddsrvhsq20@corp.supernews.com
Note that bug is a very old word in engineering usage,
long preceding the appearence of computers. The first
quote in the OED is from Thomas Edison:
b. A defect or fault in a machine, plan, or the like,
orig. U.S.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar 1/1 "Mr. Edison, I was informed,
had been up the two previous nights discovering 'a bug'
in his phonograph--an expression for solving a difficulty,
and implying that some imaginary insect has secreted itself
inside and is causing all the trouble."
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Before you buy.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-12 0:00 Bugs or Mistakes? MaryAnn Atkinson
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-20 0:00 ` Michael Stark
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-11-13 0:00 ` M.
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