TCB

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TCB
/T·C·B/
Usage: n.
Etymology: IBM
Derivation: IBM

See Also: heisenbug


TCB: /T·C·B/ n.

[IBM] 1. Trouble Came Back. An intermittent or difficult-to-reproduce problem that has failed to respond to neglect or shotgun debugging. Compare heisenbug. Not to be confused with:

  1. Trusted Computing Base, an `official' jargon term from the Orange Book.
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Sources

Source: TCB, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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