On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
FWIW, the term "debug" predates this
incident. OED has:
[...]
Thanks for that.
My understanding is that Hopper would have known this
usage, and the
real point of this story was that she found a real live bug causing the
bug, a kind of physical pun.
Quite likely...
-- Dave