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Quote: Wilkes preferred print orders and post-mortem routines over "peeping", i.e., observing a program's progress through a CRT monitor

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On many machines of the early 1950s, debugging … a practice known at the time as "peeping." … users should include extra print orders in their … [They also used post-mortem routines, hand checking, and interpretative trace routines (see below)].   Google-1   Google-2

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