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Historical footnote: DDT was developed at MIT for the
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PDP-1 computer in 1961. At that time DDT stood for "DEC
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Debugging Tape". Since then, the idea of an on-line
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debugging program has propagated throughout the computer
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industry. DDT programs are now available for all DEC
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computers. Since media other than tape are now frequently
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used, the more descriptive name "Dynamic Debugging Technique"
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has been adopted, retaining the DDT acronym. Confusion
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between DDT-10 and another well-known pesticide, dichloro-
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diphenyl-trichloroethane (C H Cl ), should be minimal since
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14 9 5
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each attacks a different, and apparently mutually exclusive,
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class of bugs.
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