Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Stewart Stremler
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 00:00

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Nathan Hand (Nathan.Hand@anu.edu.au) wrote:
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> The term "bug" has been used in engineering circles since the late 1800's
> to describe machinery which wasn't quite working. The moth in the relay
> is just another one of the urban myths, but it's a damn good one, I
> admit!

The moth in the relay "actually happened" from all the reliable sources
I've seen; I don't think that constitutes and "urban myth". The assertion
that the moth was the origin of the term "debugging" could be such a 
myth, however.

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From: stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu (Stewart Stremler)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/23
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