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[-] jeremoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

fuhstabul

Or is it constanstinobul?

[-] tryagain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Synthead@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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 :)

this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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