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 Canard (computing) - Definition 

"Canard" is a term used in the field of computers referring to "a mistaken and confused belief".

Following the 1981 publication of Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Soul of a New Machine (Atlantic Monthly, Boston), the term, which had been in-house slang at Data General (the manufacturer of the supermini which was the subject of the book) spread throughout the computer world.

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