[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.
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RTS /R-T-S/ imp.
Abbreviation for `Read The Screen'. Mainly used by hackers in
the microcomputer world. Refers to what one would like to tell
the suit one is forced to explain an
extremely simple application to. Particularly appropriate when
the suit failed to notice the `Press any key to continue' prompt,
and wishes to know `why won't it do anything'. Also seen as
`RTFS' in especially deserving cases.