Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!well!ptsfa!pttesac!vanam From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Spelling of kernel Message-ID: <360@pttesac.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 14:43:58 EST Article-I.D.: pttesac.360 Posted: Sun Dec 14 14:43:58 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 21:35:09 EST References: <8611191016.AA19776@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers) Organization: Pacific*Bell ESAC, San Francisco Lines: 26 In article <5322@ukma.ms.uky.csnet> sean@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) writes: >In article <1108@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes: >>(we may even have a trademark on Kernal, thanks to our lawyer way back then.) > >I've heard the term "kernal" used long before the Amiga or even the Mac >hit the drawing boards. I may (probably) even be able to find proof of >this that would stand up in court. Don't count your chickens. Well, at least we've ascertained that "kernal" has to do with the C-64, not with the Amiga. So what's the proper term for the Amiga's kernel? I think "colonal" would kind of cute. No? Then how about "kurnel"? I wonder if anyone has got a trademark on "recieve" ... Did I pass the 50%-rule water mark yet? No? Ah, just for the hell of it, what *is* the definition of "kernel" as applied to operating systems. Does it include all the system calls, just a subset, or what? Maybe the kernel is that part of the operating system which may never be swapped out. -- Marnix (ain't unix!) A. van\ Ammers Work: (415) 545-8334 Home: (707) 644-9781 CEO: MAVANAMMERS:UNIX UUCP: {ihnp4|ptsfa}!pttesac!vanam CIS: 70027,70