On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:06:34PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >> The Linux "kernal" can't be so foreign a language that it can be >> copied ??? All code that the computer uses must come from a bios chip >> or the hard drive not from outer space. I am trying to avoid the >> problem which I have of needing a degree in Rocket Science to even >> see anything on my computer which originates from the blessed Linus >> "kernal". Who in this world can actually read hexadecimal code >> anyway.
> Who tries? The Linux kernel isn't directly written in hexadecimal, you > know; people have better things to do than write machine code directly. So it's written in qbasic? Because if it's not done in machine code, it must be done in qbasic! -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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