My guess would have been superuser binaries, because I recall they
were meant to be utilities used by root, but after a short web search,
the more likely name would seem to be 'system binaries'.

Ref. https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s16.html

On 14/12/2022 00:59, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote:
> Steve Litt [13/12/2022 16.28]:
>
>> I meant statically linked. If you can only open your root partition at
>> the start, executables can't depend on loadable libraries. I'm pretty
>> sure that "sbin" originally stood for "static binaries".
>
> No. Dynamically linked binaries came much later (SunOS?) than /sbin.
>
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