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发表于 2005-2-14 13:57:02
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Post by rtdebian
很明显是user,从用途就可以知道啦!
同意楼上的说法,而且我觉得他们有个习惯就是把一个单词里的元音字母去掉,不管是取程序变量还是什么的,你们说呢。
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.
So I'll add a pet theory of my own [that just came to mind]. Being an old
mainframe programmer I can attest to the fact that the last qualifier of a
file name was conventionally made a 3 char filetype - e.g. asm, pli, obj, a
convention still largely adhered to today. Maybe the original author of
these main directories felt that using a 3 char name was in keeping with
that convention. |
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