• Jeremoose
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    122 years ago

    wow, it never occured to me that it meant file system table. I feel like fstabl would have made more sense then. although it probable would have just become “fuhstabul”

    • @dack
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      92 years ago

      fuhstabul

      Or is it constanstinobul?

    • @Synthead
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      52 years ago

      This was decided at a time when single bytes for a file name was still valuable space. This is why vi is vi and not visual. UNIX is more than 50 years old :)