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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
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