On 10/03/2021 12:52, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > 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 ;-) I think all these shortened names derive from a time when computing resources were limited. If you're using an 80x25 terminal over at 50 bits per second to a time-shared mainframe, it's more comfortable to type "/usr" than it is to type "/Programs". Easier to type "cp" than to type "copy", and so on. It's all fairly arbitrary. Why C:\? Why not System:\? Convention and history and inertia. > > Cheers > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usr > > - t
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