PC Mag => Amiga Letter?
23-Mar-95 23:42:45
Sb: #189578-PC Mag => Amiga Letter?
Fm: BILL LEACH 71330,2621
To: Christian Busse 100121,1360
A Kernal is the main control portion of an Operating System. It has defined
protocol to other variable and replaceable OS elements such as device drivers.
The Kernal is usually 'configurable' ala Unix. That is, it is possible to
'rebuild' the kernal for specific features and to some extent behaviour. The
'rebuild' will vary among systems using a Kernal but basically a portion is
usually recompiled and relinked to the core of the kernal (the core not being
recompiled).
AmigaOS is not a kernal based system but many of the features that prompted the
kernal design are enabled in AmigaOS dynamically.
-bill