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rtm


  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  RTM  /R-T-M/  [Usenet:  abbreviation  for  `Read  The  Manual']  1. 
  Politer  variant  of  {RTFM}.  2.  Robert  Tappan  Morris,  perpetrator  of 
  the  great  Internet  worm  of  1988  (see  {Great  Worm});  villain  to  many 
  naive  hacker  gone  wrong  to  a  few  Morris  claimed  that  the  worm  that 
  brought  the  Internet  to  its  knees  was  a  benign  experiment  that  got  out 
  of  control  as  the  result  of  a  coding  error.  After  the  storm  of  negative 
  publicity  that  followed  this  blunder,  Morris's  username  on  ITS  was  hacked 
  from  RTM  to  {RTFM}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  RTM 
 
  1.  [{Usenet}]  Read  The  Manual.  Politer  variant  of  {RTFM}. 
 
  2.  Robert  T.  Morris  Jr 
 
  The  perpetrator  of  the  great  Internet  worm  of  1988  (see  {Great 
  Worm});  villain  to  many  naive  hacker  gone  wrong  to  a  few 
  Morris  claimed  that  the  worm  that  brought  the  Internet  to  its 
  knees  was  a  benign  experiment  that  got  out  of  control  as  the 
  result  of  a  coding  error.  After  the  storm  of  negative 
  publicity  that  followed  this  blunder,  Morris's  user  name  on  ITS 
  was  hacked  from  RTM  to  {RTFM}. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1995-03-31) 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  RTM 
  Registered  Transfer  Module 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  RTM 
  Release  To  Manufacture  /  Market 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  RTM 
  Remote  Test  Module