Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 23:08:02 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, 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: <5.0.2.1.1.20031220230641.02d15ec0@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <3FE4D580.6050001@potentialtech.com> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20031220224013.02cf25c0@popserver.sfu.ca> <5.0.2.1.1.20031220224013.02cf25c0@popserver.sfu.ca>
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At 18:04 20/12/2003 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >Colin Percival wrote: > > 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. The same could be said about /tmp. I suspect it has less to do with abbreviation, and more to do with someone having a broken "e" key on their keyboard. ;) Colin Percival
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