[nanis]

He is not referring to the firmware as "kernel" ... See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERNAL :

    "KERNAL is Commodore's name for the ROM-resident
    operating system core in its 8-bit home computers;
    from the original PET of 1977, followed by the
    extended but strongly related versions used in its
    successors: the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Plus/4, C16,
    and C128."

[emcrazyone]

Too bad that's not stated in the article. The way the article reads seems to imply a kernel OS.

[nanis]

> "The way the article reads seems to imply a kernel OS."

I don't think so. Here are some instances of the word KERNAL in the article:

    * ... jump table at the end of the KERNAL ROM ...

    * ... The system ROM (“KERNAL”) was now 4 KB

    * ... making the KERNAL and the editor merely
    a device driver package.

    *  ... jump table in the KERNAL ROM for interfacing
    with it

    * ... these are the KERNAL calls used by BASIC ...

    * The following eight KERNAL routines ...

    * ... it calls out to these KERNAL functions ...

    * ... these KERNAL calls have to parse the BASIC
    arguments ...

    * These 6 KERNAL calls are actually BASIC command
    extensions, ...

[aidenn0]

I had never heard of the commodore KERNAL before and I had no problem following it. In addition, the term kernel has many uses in computing besides OS kernel.

[icedchai]

You could've Googled it and found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERNAL