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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!darwin.sura.net!wupost!gumby!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!help.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: Honesty with 386BSD 0.1 Message-ID: <michaelv.711665286@help.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1992Jul6.190621.2169@cshl.org> <1992Jul6.223929.11677@nrao.edu> <lancelot.711652859@tdsb-s> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 20:48:06 GMT Lines: 21 In <lancelot.711652859@tdsb-s> lancelot@mais.hydro.qc.ca (Christian Doucet) writes: >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..) >"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. Which is not surprising, since GNU stands for Gnu's Not Unix... figure that one out. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon "Ignorance is bliss..." michaelv@iastate.edu -- Computer Engineering, Iowa State University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------