Why is it "usr" in unix? They couldn't afford that one extra vowel?

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: IcemanJer
that would be memory, not disk storage space.
disk storage didn't exist back then.
data was either punched in with plastic cards, or fed in through one of those gigantic magnetic tape spools.

unix was invented in the 60's, not the 40's

 

[sandorski]

A vowel is what, $200 US? Screw that! That'll add up in a hurry!!!

 

[unclebabar]

> why couldnt Microsoft keep the admin account SA?? They did in SQL

1) SQL is not a Microsoft invention.
2) Micro$oft does whatever it wants

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: sandorski
A vowel is what, $200 US? Screw that! That'll add up in a hurry!!!

200? I thought it was 250.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: gopunk
just a random thought...

Bill Gates at the age of 5 copyrighted the letter "e" and demanded royalties, "e" didn't get open sourced in time

 

[PlatinumGold]

it was a soviet plot to turn all user's into ussr's but they couldn't afford the second s.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: sandorski
A vowel is what, $200 US? Screw that! That'll add up in a hurry!!!

200? I thought it was 250.

Dang! No wonder they dropped it!

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: unclebabar
> why couldnt Microsoft keep the admin account SA?? They did in SQL

1) SQL is not a Microsoft invention.
2) Micro$oft does whatever it wants

neither is windows, what's your point?

 

[unclebabar]

What you mean Windows is not a Microsoft invention? I'll concede that DOS isn't a Microsoft invention and that there may have been some collaboration with IBM at it's inception, but other than that I don't recall anything about Windows not being a Micro$oft product.

My point is: Micro$oft does whatever it wants.

 

[Spooner]

this is thread is entirely too amusing

 

[ggavinmoss]

Originally posted by: unclebabar
> why couldnt Microsoft keep the admin account SA?? They did in SQL

1) SQL is not a Microsoft invention.
2) Micro$oft does whatever it wants

Or how about the fact that there are too many abbrev. and TLAs in the computing realm? It's less confusing to spell things out.

-geoff

 

[unclebabar]

Spelling things out maybe less confusing to the uninitiated, but using TLAs saves much laborious periphrasis.