[plug] Chat

[David Buddrige]

Tamara Thompson wrote:

> That's very interesting, I hadn't realized the kernel was written in low level assembly language.  I don't why I thought C.

My completely un-informed understanding is that there's a bunch of the absolute base-kernel that is written with in-line asm
for performance reasons, but  that as soon as you get out beyond a fairly narrow level beyond the kernel it's all pure C....
is this the correct understanding?

cheers

Dave.