On 5/23/05, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:02 -0400, grumman Fan wrote: > > On 5/23/05, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Jeff Kinz wrote: > > > > This isn't a programming question. Its a scripting question. > > > scripts meet most IT definitions of "program." > > > > So "scripting" is the same thing as "programming"? > > No, "scripting" is a subset of "programming". It's programming in a > script language. > > > "I scripted a new Linux kernel today." > Well, it depends on how you define "kernel". It might surprise you, but > there exist low-level OSes where low-level code is interpreted or > "scripted". It might not. I'm in my early 70's. :) Long before micro-computers existed, (what you all call PC's and "Servers" ), there was microcode, wherein the machine language of mainframes themselves was actually interpreted. Writing microcode was called microprogramming. see "programmable microcode". Intel, (and others, I assume), have started using microcode on their CPU chips, but so far I've not heard of anyway for the end user to write their own microcode for Pentium CPU's
