On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:25:14PM -0700, Paul Emerson wrote: > What is a kernel? A kernel is, at the bare essentials, the software that mediates access to the limited resources available on a computer (memory, disk, CPU time, network bandwidth, etc) amongst a set of processes that run on top of the kernel. There are many specifics involved with kernels -- some are microkernels, because they do nothing but switch the running processes on the CPU, others are monolithic kernels (such as the linux kernel) which does a lot of extra work as well (drivers for hardware, and more). Have fun. :) -- http://immunix.org/
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