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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
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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".

  
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