Hi Jasen! :-)

 PS>> Well, the New Hacker's Dictonary claims the book is the origin of
 PS>> the phrase, though that may of course only apply to the hacker
 PS>> (sub)culture. ;
 JB> from 4.3.0 of the jargon file ( ISTR  tNHD was based on version 2.3 
 JB> ?)
I have the third edition, which says it is based on version 4.0.0 of the jargon file.

Ciao
Pascal

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