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It's a statically linked program, real memory, diskless system, kernel-mode-only kernel without too much fluff in the video i/o abstraction.

• aortega 12y ago
  Kernel means "core". Kernel-mode-only kernel is a contradiction. If you don't have separate parts, you can't have a core.
  • nwg 12y ago
    So if you write core software for an architecture without privsep you must not call it a kernel?
    • aortega 12y ago
      I'm not talking about privsep, just different modules. I gonna answer you with another question: Did MS-DOS had a kernel?
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      • nwg 12y ago
        Yes. We all lose here today.
        • aortega 12y ago
          It depends. Being downvoted by people that believes a memcpy() is a kernel, is victory.
• ANTSANTS 12y ago
  Is Super Mario Bros. a kernel? Every NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, etc... game ran on the "bare metal" without anything resembling an OS (or even a BIOS, really).