major version number N.00 will probably correspond to the Nth paper
edition. Usually later versions will either completely supersede or
incorporate earlier versions, so there is generally no point in
keeping old versions around.

Our thanks to the coauthors of Steele-1983 for oversight and
assistance, and to the hundreds of Usenetters (too many to name here)
who contributed entries and encouragement. More thanks go to several
of the old-timers on the Usenet group alt.folklore.computers, who
contributed much useful commentary and many corrections and valuable
historical perspective: Joseph M. Newcomer [53],
Bernie Cosell [54], Earl Boebert
[55], and Joe Morris
[56].

We were fortunate enough to have the aid of some accomplished
linguists. David Stampe [57] and Charles Hoequist
[58] contributed valuable criticism; Joe Keane
[59] helped us improve the pronunciation guides.

A few bits of this text quote previous works. We are indebted to Brian
A. LaMacchia [60] for obtaining permission for
us to use material from the "TMRC Dictionary"; also, Don Libes
[61] contributed some appropriate material from
his excellent book "Life With UNIX". We thank Per Lindberg
[62], author of the remarkable Swedish-language 'zine
"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