where did the term operating system bug come from?

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where did the term operating system bug come from?

Answer 1

The term has been around for a long and was origionally used in hardware engineering.



There is a story going around about how an engineer found a bug in an old hardware computer and that was where the term came from but that story has been proven to not be true and the engineers working on that system were already familiar with the trm bug.



Sadly, there is no great answer to this.

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