Asri-unix.566 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!hpvax!sri-unix!gwyn@ut-tsp Mon Jan 18 21:02:44 1982 kernal Obviously, "kernal" is the illiterate spelling of "kernel". That is no worse than about 50% of the internal program documentation spelling I've seen. I believe much of this stems from phonetic spelling of words known to the programmer only through conversation. Incidentally, I found that a word list used by our spelling checker had many spelling errors itself! ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.