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echo: aviation
to: VINCE COEN
from: BILL WUNSCH
date: 1998-04-23 11:22:00
subject: acronym

Greetings, Vince!
  On 20 Apr 98, Vince Coen entered the following ASCII codes for the express 
viewing pleasure of Bill Wunsch:
 VC>
 BW>> What wasn't stolen from somewhere else?  They still can't aggree on 
where
 BW>> the term "bug" came from, as in buggy software or equipment.
 VC>
 VC> That came from Grace Hopper (US naval officer) and an early Cobol
 VC> programmer slightly relating to watching a insect crawl over a program
 VC> listing/printout that had one or more problems.
That's one story, but there are others.
                                             -==-
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