>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at  2:35 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phillip
Parmelee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Since when does a mainframe 'boot'? On VM, CP does an IPL.  

Since at least 1999, and probably before, in the IBM lab in Boeblingen.  Some 
reason you feel the need to be so picky about terminology, when both terms are 
commonly used to mean the same thing?


Mark Post

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