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To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, chat@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for?
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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.

Colin Percival