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The `startup` translator starts and maintains the hurd core servers
and system run state.  It is not the service manager (like systemd).
Rather it is used in the Hurd's current [[system
bootstrap|hurd/bootstrap]], which is the process that sets up a
traditional Unix-like environment after Mach starts.