[nwg]

It's a statically linked program, real memory, diskless system, kernel-mode-only kernel without too much fluff in the video i/o abstraction.

[ANTSANTS]

Is Super Mario Bros. a kernel? Every NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, etc... game ran on the "bare metal" without anything resembling an OS (or even a BIOS, really).

[aortega]

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

[nwg]

So if you write core software for an architecture without privsep you must not call it a kernel?

[aortega]

I'm not talking about privsep, just different modules. I gonna answer you with another question:

Did MS-DOS had a kernel?

[nwg]

Yes. We all lose here today.

[aortega]

It depends. Being downvoted by people that believes a memcpy() is a kernel, is victory.