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2006-10-22 05:41:44 · 8 answers · asked by gerry b 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
One story, is that at some place (it might have been Harvard university) a mainframe computer was printing out weird results, they checked the punch cards, but found no errors, so they opened up the mainframe and there was a bug (a moth to be precise) frazzled on the wiring
2006-10-22 06:05:46 · answer #1 · answered by wolf 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For years I thought it was Babbage's difference engine, in the late 1800s. But did a little research and found this in the Wikipedia.... very interesting:
The invention of the term is often erroneously attributed to Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer. A typical version of the story is given by this quote:
In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book September 9th 1945. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitch's [sic] in a program a bug. [2]
Hopper was not actually the one who found the insect, as she readily acknowledged. And the date was September 9, 1947, not of 1945 [4] [5]. The operators who did find it were familiar with the engineering term and, amused, kept the insect with the notation "First actual case of bug being found." Hopper loved to recount the story. [6]
While it is certain that the Mark II operators did not coin the term "bug", it has been suggested that they did coin the related term, "debug".
Hope this helps
2006-10-22 09:05:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 07:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stems from an insect found inside an early computer which was thought to be causing a malfunction in the way the computer program was running.
2006-10-22 05:47:10 · answer #4 · answered by jools 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes IT Pro has it right I believe the general term was coined by Ada Lovelace.
2006-10-22 05:47:23 · answer #5 · answered by mesun1408 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first computer malfunction was due to a giant moth stuck inside the computer.
2006-10-22 05:43:47 · answer #6 · answered by IT Pro 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Viruses are kinda like bugs.
2006-10-22 05:47:35 · answer #7 · answered by zombiepirate_13 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The problem BUGS you...............that is why it is called a bug
2006-10-22 06:01:11 · answer #8 · answered by max x 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋