Kent Pitman also wrote the "Revised Maclisp Manual (Saturday Evening Edition)" aka the "Pitmanual".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon
http://www.nhplace.com/kent/publications.html
>In 1983, I finished the multi-year task of writing The Revised Maclisp Manual (Saturday Evening Edition), sometimes known as The Pitmanual, and published it as a Technical Report at MIT's Lab for Computer Science. In 2007, I finished dusting that document off and published it to the web as the Sunday Morning Edition.
http://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/
Not to be confused with David Moon who wrote the "MacLISP Reference Manual" aka the "Moonual", and who co-authored the "Lisp Machine Manual" with Richard Stallman and Daniel Weinreb, which had big bold lettering that ran around the spine and back of the cover, so it was known as the "LISP CHINE NUAL" (reading only letters on the front).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15185827
https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/title.xml
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15186998
DonHopkins on Sept 6, 2017 | next [–]
The cover of the Lisp Machine Manual had the title printed in all caps diagonally wrapped around the spine, so on the front you could only read "LISP CHINE NUAL". So the title was phonetically pronounced: "Lisp Sheen Nual".
My friend Nick made a run of custom silkscreened orange LISP CHINE NUAL t-shirts (most places won't print around the side like that).
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=74206161754&l=54ec4e...
I was wearing mine in Amsterdam at Dappermarkt on Queen's Day (when everyone's supposed to wear orange, so I didn't stand out), and some random hacker (who turned out to be a university grad student) came up to me at random and said he recognized my t-shirt!
http://www.textfiles.com/hacking/hakdic.txt
CHINE NUAL (sheen'yu-:l) noun.
The reference manual for the Lisp Machine, a computer designed at MIT especially for running the LISP language. It is called this because the title, LISP MACHINE MANUAL, appears in big block letters -- wrapped around the cover in such a way that you have to open the cover out flat to see the whole thing. If you look at just the front cover, you see only part of the title, and it reads "LISP CHINE NUAL"
toomanybeersies on Sept 7, 2017 | parent | next [–]
Link to an image of the manual, for the lazy:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/101/264672507_307376d26c_z.jpg
