Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Kevin P. Neal
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:00

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Martin Winken <martinwi@celsius.snafu.de> wrote:

>> /usr = USeR ??

>I think that's right, but somewhere I read it stands for
>Unix System Resources.

I thought it used to be the user partition, with the user home
directories. 

Then later binaries started being put there. Then it got out of hand,
and home directories were moved out of it (and /var was created to
enable /usr to be static). 

Correct me if I'm wrong. 

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From: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/17
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