Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!rutgers!cbmvax!carolyn From: carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Spelling of kernel Message-ID: <1109@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 14:34:32 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1109 Posted: Fri Dec 12 14:34:32 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 20:08:29 EST References: <8611191016.AA19776@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1088@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1986Dec11.182104.5903@utcs.uucp> Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 20 In article <1986Dec11.182104.5903@utcs.uucp> wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) writes: >>-- >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? Don't be ridiculous. Whether Commodore's initial misspelling "Kernal" was a mistake or intentional, it is the name that Commodore used for the core OS routines in every subsequent machine until the Amiga. If the Amiga "Kernel" and docs had been written in West Chester, it probably would have been called "Kernal". -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Carolyn Scheppner -- CBM >>Amiga Technical Support<< UUCP ...{allegra,caip,ihnp4,seismo}!cbmvax!carolyn PHONE 215-431-9180 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=