RTI
= R =
RTS
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.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.