From 1025353771167067d3a6f8eca98ee3e7ece44be1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:29:44 +0100 Subject: Unify perhaps a thousand paragraphs stating what *the Hurd* is. Hurd/TheGnuHurd -> hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking -> hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/gramatically_speaking Hurd/HurdNames, hurd-name.html -> hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/origin_of_the_name Etc. --- hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/origin_of_the_name.mdwn | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/origin_of_the_name.mdwn (limited to 'hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/origin_of_the_name.mdwn') diff --git a/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/origin_of_the_name.mdwn b/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/origin_of_the_name.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..677f100d --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/origin_of_the_name.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 +Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[meta title="Origin of the Name"]] + + + +According to Thomas Bushnell, the primary architect of the Hurd: + +> *Hurd*, as an acronym, stands for *Hird of [[Unix]]-Replacing Daemons*. +> *Hird*, in turn, 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. + +[Quoting](http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2002-10/msg00099.html) +him further: + +> The name *Hurd* was invented by me, as an alternate spelling for the English +> word *herd*. *Hird* is just another alternate spelling for the same word. +> By the [[normal_rules_of_English_orthography|gramatically_speaking]], they +> all have the same pronunciations. + + +--- + + + +In other contexts: + +One contributor from Norway described two other uses of Hird. + + * "the kings men", a name given to the men accompanying the Norwegian kings at about + year 1000 and on. + + This was later coined by V. Quisling when he formed a party with + nationalistic traits to denote a set of helpers promoting his agenda of + national and Nordic ideas. + + * a symbol of collaboration with the (German) enemy used in World War II. -- cgit v1.2.3