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Date:      Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:01:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0312212100060.9843-100000@s1.stradamotorsports.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031221201221.S55059@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Doug White wrote:

> I think it was Kerningham that said that given the chance to do it all
> over, he would have called it create(2).

And there you have it.  The earliest example of bikeshedding recorded in
the development of unix.

Later,
Jason



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