Eli5 : What is the difference between ISA and Kernel?

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I used to thing that Kernel is the middle-man between hardware and software but i came across this article http://hackernoon.com/understanding-modern-cpu-architecture-part-1
And I confused.

Help me to understand what is the difference between them. Or they are different name for same thing.

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The ISA is the definition of how the hardware interprets instructions, the kernel is a piece of the software that almost all the other software is built on top of.

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