[net.misc] Origin of "debug"

herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services) (11/08/84)

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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