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From: pjm@cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
Subject: Re: Honesty with 386BSD 0.1
Message-ID: <1992Jul6.190621.2169@cshl.org>
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Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
References: <1992Jun24.025455.3548@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Jul4.042300.5967@sinkhole.unf.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 92 19:06:21 GMT

In article <1992Jul4.042300.5967@sinkhole.unf.edu> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
>
>  [Discussion of 386BSD 0.0 user having a mental anxiety attack deleted ;-)] 
>
>Ok, here's the scoop...0.1 will be released after the next minor release of
>Linux and before the first release of GNU Hurd. ;-)
>

i know this isn't the right place for this, but would someone
kindly tell me what Hurd is, (grabbing the dictionary as i type..)

hurdies: RUMP, 
hurdy-gurdy: musical instrument, etc...

i know GNU is pulling an OS together, but what does the word
Hurd have to this with effort?

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-- Pat Monardo
-- pjm@cshl.org