On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 07:45:16AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-10 at 07:27, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > > By the way, what does "usr" mean? I thought it was "user" untill I > > took a look inside. Just asking. > > I've traditionally understood it to stand for "UNIX Shared Resources", > but V.E.R.A. (the Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms) doesn't list that > as a definition; the nearest definition it does have which looks like it > might be related is "User Service Routines". > > I can't completely rule out a derivation from "user", but I don't think > that's usually considered likely.
Wikipedia [1] leans towards the derivation from "user": usr The "user file system": originally the directory holding user home directories,[15] but already by the Third Edition of Research Unix, ca. 1973, reused to split the operating system's programs over two disks [...] ...and as usual they have references to follow, which I'm too lazy to do now (as usual ;-) Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usr - t
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