tech-illerate retard here. why a kernel called the kernel? in

>>58942785
Stupid questions thread. And no. Also who is this semen demon?

no

The kernel is called the kernel because it is the "central, most important part" of the OS, which is the definition of the word "kernel". It is the interface between the hardware and programs/other OS components.

>>58942906
Congratulations, you just did someone's homework for free.

>>58942978

i asked why it's called the kernel, not "what is the kernel". I'm 27 and out of school. Just wondered about it from a math perspective since the mathematical def has been around long before the concept of modern computing

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>>58942978
>"why is it called a kernel" is homework for cs students

>>58942897

Nana Ogura btw famalam. A++ bitch

Etymologically speaking, it's my understanding that kernel is a modernization of cyrnel (Old English, meaning seed; it's also the word that corn "stems" from, if you'll forgive the pun).

Basically its what the rest of the system grows from.

>>58943070

>he still doesn't get it

Open a dictionary, will you?

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>>58943085

epic waist to hip ratio

>>58943070
>>58942785
>retard wastes time making a thread on /g/ to ask a question which won't be properly answered instead of googling it just to tell everyone that he knows very basic linear algebra.
Kill yourself you retarded brainlet.

>>58943490

>butthurt /g/entooman thinks he can out math a math major

Again, why was it called the kernel? is it because the null space forms some kind of primitive strucuture for the span of a linear map and therefore the "kernel" is the set of most basic OS elements that conduct the rest of the programs and structures?

It's a legitimate question of etymology. No need to get butthurt.

>>58943460

yup and she has a nice rack and squirts like fountain

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>>58942906
>the kernel is the most important part of the OS

It's been ages but I recall that a map like a homorophism is almost fully described by the kernel. One of the isomorphism theorems.

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It's named after the Colonel.

She is cute as fuck