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    /usr is not shorthand for "user". It is shorthand for "Unix system resource" Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 3:13
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    @fpmurphy1 that smells like a backronym. Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 6:09
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    @fpmurphy1 /usr originally was the directory to contain user's home directories (like /home today) . I agree with hobbs. Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 7:25
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    In Windows, My Computer isn't, and has never been, a directory. It is purely a shell construct; you can illustrate this by considering how you would, in a command prompt or in an old-style Win16 application, navigate to it. Program Files is a mess all of its own, with its localized name; I ran into that issue most recently literally yesterday, where a piece of software assumed the English name of Program Files but the actual name as used was localized on the system. Probably one of Microsoft's worse goofs in Windows 95. Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 9:09
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    @hobbs. @Fran Just do an Internet for /usr and Unix System Resources And, yes, in early versions of Unix, users home directories also lived under `/usr' Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 2:00