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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
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Subject: Re: Re: Spelling of kernel
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Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 05:59:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 10 05:59:27 1986
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> 
> *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?
> 
> Marnix

Actually, I believe the spelling of the word in relation to 8-bit CBM
computers has been around since the first PET 2001 machines, the jump
table in the C64 is virtually the same thing as in those early PETs.  Its
certainly true that the word, either "kernel" or "kernal", was far from
an everyday word back in 1977 or so.  Maybe it was a misspelling or just
to be different.  Or maybe it was an effort to create a uniquely 
"computerese" word to serve that purpose; maybe "kernel" was just a little
too corny :-).

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