Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!ok
From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: But what about kernel printfs?
Message-ID: <941@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 88 03:28:05 GMT
References: <12360@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4659@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Keywords: printf,UNIX,kernel

In article <4659@ihlpf.ATT.COM>, nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704a-Liber) writes:
> Unfortunately, the implementation of the kernal (or is it kernel? :-)) is

Yes, it's kernel with two "e"s.  According to Webster's II:
"kernel ... 3: The most material and central part."

"-al" and "-ar" in English are morphemes connoting "pertaining to"
which form adjectives, so "kernal" would be an adjective meaning
"pertaining to an Irish or Scottish foot soldier (a kern)".