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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spelling of kernel
Message-ID: <1028@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Nov-86 18:02:01 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1028
Posted: Sun Nov 23 18:02:01 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Nov-86 01:45:47 EST
References: <8611191016.AA19776@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1074@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> <336@pttesac.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 17
Keywords: kernel kernal
Summary: yawn

In article <336@pttesac.UUCP> vanam@pttesac.UUCP (-Root Admin-) writes:
>In article <1074@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> c55-grig@buddy.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ted Griggs) writes:
>>Does the procedure and example program given in the ROM Kernal Manual
>>actually work?
>
>Hey, I'm getting tired of this misspelling all the time  ^^^^^^.
>It's spelled just like the popcorn colonels.  Or is that Kolonels?
>Or Colennels?  Kurunals?  Kernel?

You might as well get used to it.  In the 8-bit Commodore world, local usage
has always had it spelled kernal.  Given that a reasonable number of Amiga
users are coming from this environment, there is precious little chance of
stamping out this colloquialism.
-- 
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