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F*** STAB (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] jeremoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 (1 children)

fuhstabul

Or is it constanstinobul?

[–] tryagain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Fuhzantium?

[–] 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 :)