14 Aug
2020
14 Aug
'20
11:31 p.m.
On 8/13/20, John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 1:19 PM Henry Bent
<henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> wrote:
IPL = Initial Program Load = boot(strap), by the way. It also has the
connotations of "toggle in".
IPL is one of several IBM-isms. A few others:
main storage = memory. IBM considered "memory" too anthropomorphic.
DASD = direct access storage device = disk. This is a hold-over from
the days when, in addition to disks, there were drums and the IBM 2321
data cell drive (aka the noodle-picker). DECtape would probably be
classified as DASD.
-Paul W.