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Re: searching for info

To: Paul Emerson <emersunn@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: searching for info
From: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:31:13 -0800
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
In-Reply-To: <B8A5861A.F0C%emersunn@hotmail.com>; from emersunn@hotmail.com on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:25:14PM -0700
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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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