I, like the previous poster, thought the -s- stood for system or superuser. Whever history or your course tutor says, this is the sensible interpretation on a modern UNIX.
Altought modern Unix's can easily have changed points of view and practical implementations, /sbin got it's name back in the old days. So what we think as being sensible today is not really an argument for the validity of forgone choices.
Now, I must get back to work because this thread is absolutely, utterly and totally irrelevant! ;->
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