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The Protection of Information in Computer Systems (1975)
- IncRnd 5y agoThe very first line: "Access - The ability to make use of information stored in a computer system. Used frequently as a verb, to the horror of grammarians." Access can be used as either a noun or a transitive verb. The first known reference as verb was in 1962 in computing, over a decade prior to the article/paper. Grammarians may wince, but most languages change with patterns of use. Thus come the saying that the many exceptions of English are impossible to learn. After all, in Middle English access meant "sudden attack of illness".