RTM
     Registered Transfer Module

	

	RTM
     Release To Manufacture / Market

	

	RTM
     Remote Test Module

	

	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.

	

	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)