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Wine acronym (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

GNU Hurd.

It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" 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.

– Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And then they slapped the GNU's not UNIX infront for good measure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

LoL I guess acronyms that repeat on itself are a common thing in Linux