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<H3>What the name ``Hurd'' means</H3>
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"Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons".
And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth".

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We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a
pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

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---Michael (now Thomas) Bushnell

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