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What is a y2k bug is it a kind of computer bug or a computer virus?
Bug, because it was an unintended effect of the programmer's decision to conserve memory on the small memory computers of the 1950s and 1960s and store dates as only two digits.It is not a virus as...
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Why do they say a computer has a computer bug?
from James s huggens website The Bug In 1947, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer). On the 9th of September, 1947, when the...
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Why are computer bugs called bugs?
This is because in 1947, a moth got stuck in a circuit in the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer), causing it to malfunction. When they got it out and fixed the...
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What are computer bugs?
The term "bug" had been in use for any malfunction or error of a machine long before electronic digital computers existed.Its first use referring to a computer problem was on the Harvard Mark II...
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Description of the first computer bug?
The BugIn 1947, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer).On the 9th of September, 1947, when the machine was experiencing...