Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Spelling of kernel Message-ID: <1108@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 10:36:31 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1108 Posted: Fri Dec 12 10:36:31 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 04:44:33 EST References: <8611191016.AA19776@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1088@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1986Dec11.182104.5903@utcs.uucp> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 43 In article <1986Dec11.182104.5903@utcs.uucp> wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) writes: >In article <1088@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) writes: >>In article <347@pttesac.UUCP> vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers) writes: >>>*Your* 8-bit "Kernal" ? >>sort of trademark on "Kernal". >Oh, Carolyn! Usually, I'm impressed by your contributions, but today I'm >surprised at you. Kernel is a standard Operating System term. It's a standard >in every computer science reference book on the subject. Do you really think >that Commodore originally spelled it right and every one else mis-spelled it? > >Michael Let me try to bring the discussion to a close (since I was there at the time). Kernel is indeed a standard OS term. KERNAL was/is Commodore's name for our 8 bit Operating System. The mispelling was invented by Bob Russell on his first written description of the Kernal, then was spread through an unsuspecting company by me, among others. The mispelling was intentional, you couldn't expect to call your operating system the kernel, right ? (we may even have a trademark on Kernal, thanks to our lawyer way back then.) Anyway, what's done is done, now you know, so perhaps we can talk about other things ? I know...let's discuss the misuse of the term AmigaDos to describe the entire Amiga OS. That should be interesting, yea, that's the ticket. We'll talk about that. andy finkel -- andy finkel Commodore/Amiga {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy or pyramid!amiga!andy Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors. "Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be complex and wonderful."