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From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
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To: mach3@cs.cmu.edu, hurd-folks@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subject: The meaning of `hurd'


It's time te explain the meaning of "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.

	-mib