Richard Herb <ViennaRules******.com> wrote:
>to recompile the colonel (whatever that means)

HA!

Here's some fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernal

The KERNAL was known as kernel inside of Commodore since the PET days,
but in 1980 Robert Russell misspelled the word in his notebooks
forming the word kernal. When Commodore technical writers Neil Harris
and Andy Finkel collected Russell's notes and used them as the basis
for the VIC-20 programmer's manual, the misspelling followed them
along and stuck.

According to early Commodore 'myth' and reported by writer/programmer
Jim Butterfield among others, the word KERNAL is an acronym (or maybe
more likely, a backronym) standing for Keyboard Entry Read, Network,
And Link, which in fact makes good sense considering its role.
Berkeley Softworks later used it when naming the core routines of its
GUI OS for 8-bit home computers: the GEOS KERNAL.

-Beej