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 Lines: 9 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)".