Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:04:32 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for? Message-ID: <3FE4D580.6050001@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20031220224013.02cf25c0@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20031220224013.02cf25c0@popserver.sfu.ca>
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Colin Percival wrote: > At 17:29 20/12/2003 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > >> I had a friend tell me once that usr wasn't short for "user" as I've long >> thought, but was actually an abbreviation for something more interesting >> (and technical). > > There's an urban myth floating around that it meant Unix System Resource. > According to denizens of afc, this is likely a backronym, since the first > use of /usr/ was to store user's files. The urban myth is believeable, though, since it seems silly to abbreviate "user" with "usr" ... I mean, you're only saving 1 letter. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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