Crashing

[john f berkery]

by nie...@flash.bellcore.com (Jakob Nielsen):

> Many Macintosh users have started using the verb "to bomb" to describe
> the system going down (because of the cute icon shown when a fatal error
> occurs). I don't think that term is used by users of other computers.

I used to use a set of Fortran subroutines for non-linear dynamics which
were written by Martin-Marietta under NASA contract in the late 60's. The
standard error handling subroutine was named ZZBOMB. Program "bombimg" is
a term that must go back even farther than that.
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Jack Berkery, Computer Scientist, GE Research, Schenectady NY
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