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
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