<quote who="Nick Croft">
> Trivia: how do you analyse mgetty. Is it Modem+get+teletype ?
Not sure... Google? Sadly dict doesn't have a good etymology of that one. :)
I'd wager that Jill Rowling will have a good answer for that.
> And on a related note, what's the v m and z in vmlinuz ?
I've just been given a quick, second hand history tute:
"vm stems from the vmunix that sun used to use the z is from the
compressed images that we now have since the expanded kernels have trouble
being loaded at boot time into a 640K restriction (before you get the
extended memory manager running)"
... and more ...
"vm means "virtual memory" - its what bsd 4 picked when they first
implemented it to distinguish from /unix without vm"
If someone would like to ask at linux.conf.au, there are more than enough
esteemed hackers to answer. I've been told that Matthew Wilcox will have
some good answers. Seek him out. :)
- Jeff (there's essentially a kernel track if you look at the schedule
closely...)
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