The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[email protected] (Thompson, Steve) writes: > Why is it called a memory leak? I think that's a distributed term. We > used to call it something else on the mainframe, but I can't remember > what. > > <SNIP> > > Memory creep. > > Memory leak is a nice way of saying someone's coding practices are a > little shaky -- in particular, from my experience, what is produced by > certain compilers seem to not correctly cleanup after themselves forcing > PAPS to have to be rebooted. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson old lstsrv-l archives from 1991 (back when mailing lists were on bitnet vm370 machines) http://community.emailogy.com/scripts/wa-COMMUNITY.exe?A2=ind9111&L=lstsrv-l&P=41042 "storage cancer" -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
