Re: Hurd

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From: Scott Telford
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 13:35

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In article <GILHAM.92Jan17161558@march.csl.sri.com>,
gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) writes:
> My co-worker and I were discussing Hurd the other day.  We realized
> that while a system crash on the sun is currently called a `panic',
> such an (unlikely) event on a Hurd system would be a stampede.

I know this sound stupid, but what exactly does Hurd stand for?

It seems a kinda boring name for a brave new OS. But maybe it's
because I keep associating it with Douglas Hurd, a fairly boring
government minister we have here ....8^)

Reply by mail, if you think everyone else knows....
--
Scott Telford, Dept of Computer Science,   /   "I think she's one of the
University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd,      /    greatest composers of the
Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.                    /    century, in my opinion."
electric mail: s.telford@ed.ac.uk          /    - Nigel Kennedy, on Kate Bush.

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