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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="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
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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
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