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Post by MadModder on Aug 16, 2006 20:36:57 GMT -5
Today I have had a lot of thoughts around the C64 kernel ROM. Among those thoughts, there was the "why are some people writing kernel, and some kernal?"-thought. I had to look that up in a dictionary. Suprisingly enough, there are no such word as kernal. Kernel on the other hand, means like core, nucleus, or even... kernel. ;D That thing in the middle of a nut, or the seeds in apples. So, it has to be the kernel, and nothing else.
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Post by gmoon on Aug 16, 2006 20:46:54 GMT -5
It's always been 'kernal' in every reference that Commodore released, and in all the books, articles, etc., that came after. I'll continue to use the spelling I've used for 20+ years, right or wrong....
Interesting that the word doesn't exist (linquistically.)
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Post by atolle on Aug 17, 2006 1:40:16 GMT -5
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Post by Golan Klinger on Aug 17, 2006 2:00:41 GMT -5
Yeah but take a look at this. FWIW, I spell it kernal too. Ultimately though, what difference does it make? A rose by any other name and all that jazz.
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Post by MadModder on Aug 17, 2006 2:56:58 GMT -5
Ah, so that's the reason... I was wondering why I sometimes got more hits on google with kernal... google fightJeri says kernel on first page in the DTV programming docs, and kernal on second page
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Post by thurstan on Aug 17, 2006 7:31:50 GMT -5
Maybe you can have kernel for cores of non computer things and kernal for computer related cores.
Like disc and disk for example.
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Post by MadModder on Aug 17, 2006 7:51:26 GMT -5
Well I use disc for compact discs, and disk for floppies and HDDs, because a floppy is a diskette (note the K), and a HDD is a Hard Diskette Drive
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Post by thurstan on Aug 17, 2006 9:06:46 GMT -5
Yes thats right, the inventors of the CD started to use the term disc for their product and the term stuck
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Post by MadModder on Aug 17, 2006 9:13:58 GMT -5
I don't know but it could be that a round flat thing is a disc... I find it very logical. Disc is disc, and disk is short for diskette. Maybe I'm all wrong.
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Post by Golan Klinger on Aug 17, 2006 13:05:58 GMT -5
Ah, disk vs. disc. Another doozey. Add my name to the list that refer to CDs as compact discs and computer apparatus, hard of floppy, as disks. To really complicate things, English gets the word "disc" from the Latin "discus" which the Romans took from the Greeks who used the word "diskos", both meaning platter. Argh. My head hurts.
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Post by MadModder on Aug 17, 2006 14:09:30 GMT -5
Haha. Yes, lets leave it there. We use the words we use, and that's that. ;D
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