A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for?

[Doug White]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Marty Landman wrote:

> At 06:08 PM 12/20/2003, Colin Percival wrote:
>
> >>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. ;)
>
> I like the broken 'e' key hypothesis, although given the first Unix
> developers were at Bell Labs I find it a little hard to believe; I worked
> at Bell Core once upon a time and faulty equipment like that was something
> I don't recall ever seeing.

I like the faulty equipment idea; reference creat(2). Or someone who
didn't like the letter 'e'.

I think it was Kerningham that said that given the chance to do it all
over, he would have called it create(2).

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