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Kernel means "core". Kernel-mode-only kernel is a contradiction. If you don't have separate parts, you can't have a core.

• nwg 13y ago
  So if you write core software for an architecture without privsep you must not call it a kernel?
  • aortega 13y 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 13y ago
      Yes. We all lose here today.
      • aortega 13y ago
        It depends. Being downvoted by people that believes a memcpy() is a kernel, is victory.