Software Bug Moth. Bugs are an unavoidable reality when writing software. Navys Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator was undergoing several tests at Harvard University when the technicians discovered a moth on the circuit board.
They may be benign and not affect the usefulness of the program or have only subtle effects. Navys Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator was undergoing several tests at Harvard University when the technicians discovered a moth on the circuit board. Thomas Edison reported bugs in his designs as early as the 1800s but this was the first bug identified in a computer.
While we tend to think of software bugs as minor annoyances and inconveniences at worst depending on what a piece of software is controlling they can have serious real-life consequences.
When the first computers were built during the early 1940s people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them. In the age of vacuum-tube transistors and electromechanical computers the earliest software bug was a literal insect a moth. A computer bug or software bug is a term for an unintentional programming mistake or defect in computer software or hardware. Moth that caused the malfunction in the Mark II computer On the same lines the word patch which means applying a fix for a bug in a program comes from the old days when programmers used to fix a program stored on paper tape by using glue and paper.
