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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:09:42 am | by JohnMcPherson | |
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The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a Kernel as
Your plastic pal that's fun to be with.
-Anyone got anything that they think they should add to this definition?
+The Kernel internals is mostly hidden from users; originally, the kernel was surrounded by a [Shell] and user applications use the shell. (Think of a nut or stone-fruit - a kernel encompassed by a shell).
The kernel can have bits loaded at run time; each bit is called a Kernel [Module].
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