2006-06-15 18:39:06 · 6 answers · asked by BURNZ 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
cos they r as irritating as bed bugs :-D . ..if i hav a bug in my prog, i cant sleep peacefully till i clear it
2006-06-15 18:47:23 · answer #1 · answered by raji_drc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story I heard was that back in the old days when the first computers came out there were a lot of mechanical parts. No microchips back then... and an actual insect messed up the mechanism and produced errors. Hence the saying "having a bug in the system or program."
But here is a link to the definitive answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug
2006-06-15 18:48:48 · answer #2 · answered by cybernewsmaster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When huge super computers where in use a bug got in and it was not letting two transistors to touch so pass current and thats why it was stuck for a long time and after lot of searching for tech defects this bug was found and that is how
"bug" word came in picture
2006-06-15 18:45:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it goes back to the old days when computers used vacuum tubes. A technician was checking to see why a tube burnt out and discovered a moth or something like it was the cause and as the person was taking it out, another person asked what they were doing and stated I am taking a bug out of the computer and that is how the jargon came about.. if I am not mistaken
2006-06-15 18:44:51 · answer #4 · answered by thx1176 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the past, the size of computer was very much larger, one of the printer of US ARM forces got out of order, when checked was found that bugs were nests inside, so they remove the bugs and clean the printer, from that event the story begins, of bugs, and debuging.
Muhammad Abid Azeemi
Network Administrator
CECOS University
2006-06-15 19:36:05 · answer #5 · answered by OrangeApple 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cos they can be such small errors that it gets irritating when the program doesnt work.
2006-06-15 18:44:28 · answer #6 · answered by medhruv 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋