Z:gnu-www-ja-thegnuproject--b43ef1-It did not stay that way. Mic/en

It did not stay that way. Michael (now Thomas) Bushnell, the main developer of the kernel, preferred the name Hurd, and redefined Alix to refer to a certain part of the kernel&mdash;the part that would trap system calls and handle them by sending messages to Hurd servers.