A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for?

[Bill Moran]

Colin Percival wrote:
> 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.

The urban myth is believeable, though, since it seems silly to abbreviate
"user" with "usr" ... I mean, you're only saving 1 letter.

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Bill Moran
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