TCB /T-C-B/ N. [IBM] 1. Trouble Came Back.

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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: 2. Trusted Computing
Base, an `official' jargon term from the Orange Book.

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