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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
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Posted: Sun Dec 14 14:43:58 1986
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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.                 

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