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 , Bernie Cosell
, Earl Boebert , and Joe Morris
.

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

A few bits of this text quote previous works. We are indebted to Brian
A. LaMacchia for obtaining permission for us to
use material from the `TMRC Dictionary'; also, Don Libes
contributed some appropriate material from his
excellent book `Life With UNIX'. We thank Per Lindberg ,
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 our gratitude to Marc
Weiser of XEROX PARC for securing us
permission to quote from PARC's own jargon lexicon and shipping us a
copy.

It is a particular pleasure to acknowledge the major contributions of
Mark Brader to the final manuscript; he read and reread