Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:43:09 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for? Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20031220224013.02cf25c0@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <3FE4CD66.3040603@potentialtech.com>
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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
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