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| Apr 13, 2017 at 16:41 | comment | added | fpmurphy | It is either a backronym or a retronym. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 3:08 | comment | added | muru |
@fpmurphy1 I do get a few that do say that's a backronym: askubuntu.com/a/135679/158442, unix.stackexchange.com/a/103348/70524, tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html, and this SF post's claim that /usr does stand for Unix System Resources is not backed up by any sources. Not only that, "Unix System Resources" doesn't even show up in ngrams!
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 2:57 | history | edited | Fran | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 2:00 | comment | added | fpmurphy |
@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'
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 9:09 | comment | added | user |
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.
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:25 | comment | added | Fran |
@fpmurphy1 /usr originally was the directory to contain user's home directories (like /home today) . I agree with hobbs.
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 6:09 | comment | added | hobbs | @fpmurphy1 that smells like a backronym. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 3:13 | comment | added | fpmurphy |
/usr is not shorthand for "user". It is shorthand for "Unix system resource"
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| Apr 11, 2017 at 21:19 | history | edited | Fran | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added exception that confirm the rule
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| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:26 | history | edited | Fran | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
typos
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| Apr 11, 2017 at 12:53 | history | answered | Fran | CC BY-SA 3.0 |