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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!cv3.cv.nrao.edu!laphroaig!cflatter From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Honesty with 386BSD 0.1 Message-ID: <1992Jul6.223929.11677@nrao.edu> Date: 6 Jul 92 22:39:29 GMT Article-I.D.: nrao.1992Jul6.223929.11677 References: <1992Jul6.190621.2169@cshl.org> Sender: news@nrao.edu Reply-To: cflatter@nrao.edu Organization: NRAO Lines: 16 In article 2169@cshl.org, pjm@cshl.org (Pat Monardo) writes: >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? The GNU Hurd is the collection of servers that run on top of the Mach 3.0 microkernel to provide operating system services. The GNU Operating System comprises [sic: will comprise] the microkernel and the Hurd. Chris Flatters cflatter@nrao.edu