On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:45:13PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> in case anyone's curious; I once heard a brief history of /usr.
> /usr was originally where the _user_ home directories were. 

The story I heard was that /usr didn't initially have anything to do with
users at all, but instead was an abbreviation for Unix System Resources.

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