• mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    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


    Wow TIL