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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!hobbit.ireq.hydro.qc.ca!lancelot 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> Sender: news@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Netnews Admin) Organization: Hydro-Quebec, Montreal, Canada Lines: 27 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. -- Christian Doucet ----- lancelot@Mais.Hydro.Qc.Ca | Hydro-Quebec System Administrator - lancelot@Rot.Qc.Ca | voice: + 1 514 858 7704 I speak for myself! -- #include <disclaimer.h> | fax : + 1 514 858 7799 "Humans use only 10% of their brain cells, the rest is taken up by the OS"