Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!mnetor!utcs!wagner From: wagner@utcs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Spelling of kernel Message-ID: <1986Dec11.182104.5903@utcs.uucp> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 18:21:04 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.1986Dec11.182104.5903 Posted: Thu Dec 11 18:21:04 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 19:00:42 EST References: <8611191016.AA19776@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1088@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Reply-To: wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services, general purpose UNIX Lines: 21 Checksum: 01623 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" ? >> >>I'm not sure, but from all the postings on this subject I *think* >>that what has happened is that Commodore mispelled "kernel" in >>some documentation for the C-64 and that the mispelling has since >>become accepted within Commodore and within the C-64 user community. >> >>Is that it? > > Funny. I always thought it was the other way around. We have some >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