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<A HREF="hurd-paper.html">Towards a New Strategy of OS Design</A>, an
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<A HREF="hurd-talk.html">The Hurd</A>, a presentation by Marcus
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<a href="http://hurdextras.nongnu.org/ipc_guide/">The <em>Unofficial GNU Mach
IPC beginner's guide</em></a>, an easy introduction to Inter Process
Comunication in the Mach microkernel by Manuel Pavón Valderrama.
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<q>Hello world à la mach ipc</q>.
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<A HREF="auth.html">The Authentication Server</A>, the transcript of a talk about the details of
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Critique of the GNU Hurd Multi-server Operating System</em></a>, an
analysis of the GNU Hurd on GNU Mach system, written by Neal Walfield
and Marcus Brinkmann.
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paper <em>Improving Usability via Access Decomposition and Policy
Refinement</em></a>: Neal Walfield and Marcus Brinkmann give an overview about
how a future, subsequent system may be architected.
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