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Ah, I've long wanted to see the Jargon file without seeing ESR's "additions", and here it is: dourish.com/goodies/jargon.htm

Jim Stormdancer @mogwai_poet

@cwebber Hm, what got added? I devoured the 1991 book as a 13 year old, what additions did I absorb?

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@mogwai_poet @cwebber nearly anything unix-y/c related was a deviation from the books cultural history as a mit labs artifact, at a time when unix vs lisp was the dichotomy of the moment

@nightpool @cwebber Ah, too bad! I was a C kid so I loved those parts.