* hurd/translators.mdwn: add a link to startup
* hurd/translators/startup.mdwn: new file with minimal documentation.
---
 hurd/translator.mdwn         |  1 +
 hurd/translator/startup.mdwn | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 hurd/translator/startup.mdwn

diff --git a/hurd/translator.mdwn b/hurd/translator.mdwn
index 13932701..68333d27 100644
--- a/hurd/translator.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator.mdwn
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ The [[concept|concepts]] of translators creates its own 
problems, too:
 * [[eth-multiplexer]]
 * [[pflocal]]
 * [[hostmux]]
+* [[startup]]
 * [[storeio]]
 * [[streamio]]
 * [[ext2fs]]
diff --git a/hurd/translator/startup.mdwn b/hurd/translator/startup.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d364c7bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/translator/startup.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag stable_URL]]
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+The `startup` translator starts and maintains the hurd core servers
+and system run state.  It is not the service manager (like systemd).
+Rather it is used in the Hurd's current [[system
+bootstrap|hurd/bootstrap]], which is the process that sets up a
+traditional Unix-like environment after Mach starts.
+
-- 
2.45.2


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