On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, 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. 

IRIX defaults to /usr/people/* for user home directories, at least as of
6.5.(5?)

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