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by chris_wot 4648 days ago
The parent comment? I was the top level commenter on this. Do you mean the article itself? It reads:

"The kernel is written in C, however how did the kernel get compiled without a compiler installed?"

And...

"If the C compiler is installed on my machine before the kernel is compiled, how can the compiler itself get compiled without a compiler installed?"