• don@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    GNU Hurd.

    It’s time [to] 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.

    – Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell

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      3 months ago

      And then they slapped the GNU’s not UNIX infront for good measure