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Re: hit the key, kill the program, fatal error, bomb out, etc.
Subject:Re: hit the key, kill the program, fatal error, bomb out, etc. From:Rikki Nyman <nymanr -at- TRG -dot- TRGLINK -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 19 Apr 1994 17:05:27 -0700
One of our programmers has a fairly gruesome perspective on violent terminology:
*On the topic of kill, there exist terms in multi-tasking operating systems
like UNIX where parent processes kill their children and so forth.
If a parent process dies without killing its children processes, these
children processes become orphans. I have seen an online jargon
dictionary once before, and I will tell you how to get to it once I find
it again.*
rn
>On Tue, 19 Apr 1994, Vollbach, Elizabeth wrote:
>> "Hit the key, kill the program, fatal error, bomb out,
>> crash, blow up" What's wrong with these? No, I don't see these terms
>> fading away. For people like me, they express very well the way they
>> often feel when they use their computers.
>Is this discussion an outshoot of the inherent gender bias in computers?
>Just kidding! :) Put down that flamethrower! whoa, boy!
>yrs,
>andreas
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>Andreas Ramos, M.A. Heidelberg Sacramento, California
