Word Chat

[Peter Mueller]

Hi,

Fare said the following to the terms 'kernel' and 'nucleus':

... kernel if you accept the "nucleus" terminology, but both words have 
exactly the same meaning ...

That's for the one with the glossary. In OS history there was a trend from
monolithical to mikro-kernel based OS. Then the microkernel grew and grew
and there were people, who thought the term 'micro' used for a kernel with more
then 100.000 lines of code (no comments) isn't ok. And they create a new
kernel with 10.000 lines of code and call it 'nano'-kernel, which should
express that this is a real small kernel. And then others came, saying, that
this is still to big. And then there was the NUCLEUS within the kernel and all-
together will fit within 1000 lines of code.
And though the semantic of 'kernel' and 'nucleus' seems to be the same, there's
still a syntactical difference ...

Is there anyone working on a glossary?

Peter