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From: lancelot@mais.hydro.qc.ca (Christian Doucet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Honesty with 386BSD 0.1
Message-ID: <lancelot.711652859@tdsb-s>
Date: 20 Jul 92 17:20:59 GMT
References: <1992Jul6.190621.2169@cshl.org> <1992Jul6.223929.11677@nrao.edu>
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cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) writes:

>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.

"Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons".
And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth".

We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a
pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

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