A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for?

[Colin Percival]

At 18:04 20/12/2003 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
>Colin Percival wrote:
> > 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.

   The same could be said about /tmp.  I suspect it has less to do with
abbreviation, and more to do with someone having a broken "e" key on their
keyboard. ;)

Colin Percival