V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
RTM
Registered Transfer Module
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
RTM
Release To Manufacture / Market
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
RTM
Remote Test Module
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
RTM
/R?T?M/
1. [Usenet: abbreviation for ?Read The Manual?] 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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)