Hurd

/hɜrd/ noun

A surname of English origin, or referring to Richard Hurd (18th-century bishop and writer). In computing, refers to the GNU Hurd microkernel.

As a surname, from Middle English herde 'herdsman', from Old English hierde. The computing term GNU Hurd stands for 'Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons', where 'Hird' means 'herd' in the Hurdy-Gurdy programming language.

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