This book was developed by Eric Raymond using T_EX 3.14159 (C version 6.1) and a customized version of GNU's Texinfo package. The book was composed by Windfall Software (Paul C. Anagnostopoulos and Joe Snowden), who converted the master files to ZzT_EX, typeset and formatted the book, and then produced PostScript files for the printer. The text typeface is Jaeger Daily News, with MathTime used for mathematics. Computer Modern Typewriter is used for examples and Adobe Phonetic for pronunciation keys. This book corresponds to version 4.0.0 of the on-line Jargon File.

Printed and bound in the United States of America.

Cover art by Duane Bibby.

"Teletype" is a trademark of AT&T. "PostScript" is a trademark of Adobe, Inc. "Apple" and "Macintosh" are trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc. ''Coke" and "Classic Coke" are trademarks of the Coca Cola Corp. "Cray" is a trademark of Cray Research, Inc. DEC, DECtape, DECNET, VAX, PDP, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, ULTRIX, VMS, and VT-100 are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. CP/M is a trademark of Digital Research, Inc. System/360, RS/6000, and IBM PC are trademarks of IBM. GEnie is a trademark of General Electric. MS-DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows are trademarks of Microsoft. "Scrabble" is a trademark of Selchow and Richter, Inc. SunOS, SPARC, and SPARCstation are trademarks of Sun Microsystems. D&D is a trademark of Tactical Studies Research, Inc. UNIX is a trademark of X/Open. ITS was nobody's trademark and damn proud of it.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The New hacker's dictionary / compiled by Eric S. Raymond; with assistance and illustrations by Guy L. Steele Jr.3rd ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-262-18178-9. ISBN 0-262-68092-0 (pbk.)

1. Electronic data processingTerminologiesHumor.

2. ComputersHumor. 3. ComputersSlangDictionaries.

I. Raymond, Eric S. II. Steele, Guy.

PN6231.E4H3 1996

004'.014dc2096-3009
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