Re: [OT] Re: Etymology of "struct"

"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Manuel T said:

Joachim Schmitz wrote:

What were proposed etymologies for it?
/usr -> Unix System Resource (rather than USeR)

Can somebody ask for this to Dennis Ritchie?(I always thought this
stand for USeR)

That was my recollection. The first Unix system at Bell Labs put
the home directories for all users in /usr. When that later
spilled to a second disk, those of us sent there were put in
/crp. ("Creep" was a common synonym for "user".)

P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com


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