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Aloone_Jonez:
You're the retarded ones, he said Kernal not kernel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernal
--- Quote ---the word KERNAL is an acronym (or maybe more likely, a backronym) standing for Keyboard Entry Read, Network, And Link, which in fact makes good sense considering its role.
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Kintaro:
I was going to point that out but I enjoyed seeing stupid people assume clever people as stupid.
Fuck, who are the real dyslexics on this forum? Worker can't read for shit!
Jenda:
As Wikipedia says, it's most probably a backronym.
Anyway, I'm quite sure he meant KERNEL, not Kernal:
--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---The KERNAL is Commodore's name for the ROM resident operating system core
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--- Quote ---There's also, however, a theory that the word originated as a misspelling of the word "kernel"
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--- Quote ---The (completely different) OS core in the 16/32-bit Amiga series was called the Amiga ROM Kernel, i.e. using the correct spelling of kernel.
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And BTW:
--- Quote ---A backronym is the phenomenon that the short word exists first and is then expanded to a phrase.
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Kintaro:
You might also want it pointed out, he didn't just say KERNAL, he also said what it stood for, which makes it highly unlikely he meant Kernel.
Jenda:
OK, I just searched the article, and he did NOT use the word kernal at all, save here, in the daily notes section:
--- Quote ---Kernal is an acronym for
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