We were fortunate enough to have the aid of some accomplished
A few bits of this text quote previous works. We are indebted to Brian
us to use material from the "TMRC Dictionary"; also, Don Libes
his excellent book "Life With UNIX". We thank Per Lindberg
"Hackerbladet", for bringing "FOO!" comics to our attention and
smuggling one of the IBM hacker underground's own baby jargon files
out to us. Thanks also to Maarten Litmaath for generously allowing the
inclusion of the ASCII pronunciation guide he formerly maintained. And
our gratitude to Marc Weiser of XEROX PARC
from PARC's own jargon lexicon and shipping us a copy.
It is a particular pleasure to acknowledge the major contributions of
the File and Dictionary; they have read and reread many drafts,
checked facts, caught typos, submitted an amazing number of thoughtful
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