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Re: [opensuse] Assembly Language program
  • From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:17:50 -0400
  • Message-id: <4677BB5E.6040900@xxxxxxxxxx>
Carl Spitzer wrote:
> An old timer told me about those things and the roaches which used to
> eat the wires causing shorts, hence the term debugging.
>
>   
That term had supposedly been created by Grace Hopper, who found a moth
in the computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

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