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for some reason resident debuggers were frequently called monitors in early microcomputing I think it's more like "for some reason, monitors are called debugge
by reaperducer 6mo ago
for some reason resident debuggers were frequently called monitors in early microcomputing
I think it's more like "for some reason, monitors are called debuggers in later microcomputing."
- irishcoffee 6mo agoDebuggers were people pulling bugs out of walls of vacuum tubes. They monitored and literally debugged a computer. Monitor made more sense at first, they monitored for bugs. At least, this is my understanding.