[mythtv-users] The future of Mythbuntu ISOs

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
> *GLITCH: Greatest Lemon In The Company's History. Back in the late 1970s I
> took some computer classes at Boston University. The professor worked for
> IBM and told us that the term GLITCH came from a problem with one of the
> computers on one of the Apollo missions that could have resulted in a
> catastrophe. I haven't found supporting documentation, but it's a good
> story.

Foldoc gives the etymology as having originated in Yiddish.

 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (20 July 2014) [foldoc]:

  glitch

     /glich/ [German "glitschen" to slip, via Yiddish "glitshen",
     to slide or skid]

I suspect that pre-dates the Apollo missions by a bit.

Eric