[Ads-l] Antedating of "force quit" v.

[Hugo]

Added in this quarter's update, the OED's earliest for the verb "force
quit" is 25 October 1994:

https://www.oed.com/information/updates/june-2024/new-word-entries/

Here's a three-year antedating:

1991 May 26, Kiran Wagle, “Re: Good Stuff & Bad Stuff about System 7”, in
comp.sys.mac.system‎[1] (Usenet), retrieved 8 September 2024:
Works real well :) on an si... i even got a buzzing video box for a cursor
when i tried to 'force quit'...

[1]
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.system/c/RNdEv0NqT3o/m/vSrRRbwua1IJ

Also added to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/force_quit#Verb

Hugo

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org