Re: What is IPL ?
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:58:59PM -0500, David Walter wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I don't think this is necessary any more than explaining what "boot"
> > means. At this point, anyone installing Debian/390 will know what it
> > means. We could add a note to the install documentation about it, but
> > anyone who doesn't know what it means is in bad shape, and probably
> > won't be able to install successfully. Maybe the docs should point them
> > to the IBM redbook or something.
> Initial Program Load? Boot isn't it?
They mean the same thing at a high level, but IPL is more correct in
mainframe context, and that is the term we should use, not boot.
The original question was how IPL should be translated, and it should be
translated as IPL.
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- mdz
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