Re: OT: kernel in C? how translated? [Was Re: Help]
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 09:39:51AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> The kernel is the core of the operating system. The operating system is
> composed of the kernel and any utilities that ride on top of that
> kernel. Debian/GNU Linux is a GNU operating system using the Linux kernel.
Today's CPUs are actually an operating system unto themselves. Each
machine code instruction is broken into multiple microcode instructions.
The CPU exposes certain services which the "userland" :-) (i.e., ring 0)
code sitting on top of it consumes.
>From Intel's perspective Linux and Windows are just additional apps
consuming their mammoth multi-million line operating systems.
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