IPL has various meanings in the Computer category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of IPL in Computer.
PL (initial program load) is a mainframe term for the loading of the operating system into the computer's main memory . A mainframe operating system (such as OS/390) contains many megabytes of code that is customized by each installation, requiring some time to load the code into the memory. On a personal computer, booting or re-booting (re-starting) is the equivalent to IPLing.
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