and

entries/BSD.txt

@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ Unix versions for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 developed by Bill Joy and others at
 Berzerkeley starting around 1977, incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP
 networking enhancements, and many other features. The BSD versions (4.1,
 4.2, and 4.3) and the commercial versions derived from them (SunOS, ULTRIX,
-and Mt. Xinu) held the technical lead in the Unix world until AT T's
+and Mt. Xinu) held the technical lead in the Unix world until AT&T's
 successful standardization efforts after about 1986; descendants including
 Free/Open/NetBSD, BSD/OS and MacOS X are still widely popular. Note that BSD
 versions going back to 2.9 are often referred to by their version numbers
 alone, without the BSD prefix. See also Unix.
-

entries/C++.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 C++
 
-/C'pluhspluhs/ , n. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT T Bell Labs as a
+/C'pluhspluhs/ , n. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Labs as a
 successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice , although many hackers
 still grumble that it is the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada (depending
 on generation), and a prime example of second-system effect. Almost anything

entries/Death Square.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 Death Square
 
-n. The corporate logo of Novell, the people who acquired USL after AT T let
+n. The corporate logo of Novell, the people who acquired USL after AT&T let
 go of it (Novell eventually sold the Unix group to SCO). Coined by analogy
 with Death Star , because many people believed Novell was bungling the lead
-in Unix systems exactly as AT T did for many years.
-
+in Unix systems exactly as AT&T did for many years.

entries/Death Star.txt

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 Death Star
 
-n. [from the movie Star Wars ] 1. The AT T corporate logo, which bears an
+n. [from the movie Star Wars ] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which bears an
 uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the Star Wars movies. This usage
 was particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix in the 1980s, who tended
-to regard the AT T versions as inferior and AT T as a bad guy. Copies still
+to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still
 circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space
-fighter labeled 4.2 BSD streaking away from a broken AT T logo wreathed in
-flames. 2. AT T's internal magazine, Focus , uses death star to describe an
-incorrectly done AT T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark
+fighter labeled 4.2 BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in
+flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, Focus , uses death star to describe an
+incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark
 instead of light a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
-

entries/TWENEX.txt

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ apocryphal). Ultimately DEC picked TOPS-20 as the name of the operating
 system, and it was as TOPS-20 that it was marketed. The hacker community,
 mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it TWENEX (a contraction of twenty
 TENEX ), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX code
-remained (analogously to the differences between AT T V6 Unix and BSD). DEC
+remained (analogously to the differences between AT&T V6 Unix and BSD). DEC
 people cringed when they heard TWENEX , but the term caught on nevertheless
 (the written abbreviation 20x was also used). TWENEX was successful and very
 popular; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as
@@ -27,4 +27,3 @@ VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in the sun.
 DEC attempted to convince TOPS-20 users to convert to VMS , but instead, by
 the late 1980s, most of the TOPS-20 hackers had migrated to Unix. There is a
 TOPS-20 home page.
-

entries/UN*X.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 UN*X
 
-n. Used to refer to the Unix operating system (a trademark of AT T, then of
+n. Used to refer to the Unix operating system (a trademark of AT&T, then of
 Novell, then of Unix Systems Laboratories, then of the Open Group; the
 source code parted company with it after Novell and was owned by SCO, which
 was acquired by Caldera) in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly
@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@ entrenched anyhow. It has been suggested that there may be a psychological
 connection to practice in certain religions (especially Judaism) in which
 the name of the deity is never written out in full, e.g., YHWH or G--d is
 used. See also glob and splat out.
-

entries/UTSL.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ better off reading the source code that supports whatever feature is causing
 confusion, rather than making yet another futile pass through the manuals,
 or broadcasting questions on Usenet that haven't attracted wizards to
 answer them. Once upon a time in elder days , everyone running Unix had
-source. After 1978, AT T's policy tightened up, so this objurgation was in
+source. After 1978, AT&T's policy tightened up, so this objurgation was in
 theory appropriately directed only at associates of some outfit with a Unix
 source license. In practice, bootlegs of Unix source code (made precisely
 for reference purposes) were so ubiquitous that one could utter it at almost

entries/Unix conspiracy.txt

@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ Unix conspiracy
 
 n. [ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20
 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at
-Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT T's competitors by making them
-dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT T's
+Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them
+dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's
 control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system
 that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively
-unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from AT T).
+unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from AT&T).
 This theory was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced
 in the back door entry. In this view, Unix was designed to be one of the
 first computer viruses (see virus ) but a virus spread to computers
@@ -16,6 +16,5 @@ the well-known quotation Unix is snake oil was uttered by DEC president
 Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began actively promoting its own family of
 Unix workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.) If there was
 ever such a conspiracy, it got thoroughly out of the plotters' control after
-1990. AT T sold its Unix operation to Novell around the same time Linux and
+1990. AT&T sold its Unix operation to Novell around the same time Linux and
 other free-Unix distributions were beginning to make noise.
-

entries/dumpster diving.txt

@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ dumpster diving
 /dump'ster di:ving/ , n. 1. The practice of sifting refuse from an office or
 technical installation to extract confidential data, especially
 security-compromising information ( dumpster is an Americanism for what is
-elsewhere called a skip ). Back in AT T's monopoly days, before paper
+elsewhere called a skip ). Back in AT&T's monopoly days, before paper
 shredders became common office equipment, phone phreaks (see phreaking )
 used to organize regular dumpster runs against phone company plants and
-offices. Discarded and damaged copies of AT T internal manuals taught them
+offices. Discarded and damaged copies of AT&T internal manuals taught them
 much. The technique is still rumored to be a favorite of crackers operating
 against careless targets. 2. The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind
 buildings where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are
@@ -14,4 +14,3 @@ located, with the expectation (usually justified) of finding discarded but
 still-valuable equipment to be nursed back to health in some hacker's den.
 Experienced dumpster-divers not infrequently accumulate basements full of
 moldering (but still potentially useful) cruft.
-

entries/troff.txt

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ and CTSS program RUNOFF by Jerome Saltzer ( that name came from the
 expression to run off a copy ). A companion program, nroff , formats output
 for terminals and line printers. In 1979, Brian Kernighan modified troff so
 that it could drive phototypesetters other than the Graphic Systems CAT. His
-paper describing that work ( A Typesetter-independent troff, AT T CSTR #97)
+paper describing that work (A Typesetter-independent troff, AT&T CSTR #97)
 explains troff's durability. After discussing the program's obvious
 deficiencies a rebarbative input syntax, mysterious and undocumented
 properties in some areas, and a voracious appetite for computer resources
@@ -22,4 +22,3 @@ systems have reduced troff 's relative importance, but this tribute
 perfectly captures the strengths that secured troff a place in hacker
 folklore; indeed, it could be taken more generally as an indication of those
 qualities of good programs that, in the long run, hackers most admire.
-