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System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS.

System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS.: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS.

IPL - Initial Program Load Starting or restarting the system. This acronym was pronounced eye-pee-ell and was used as a verb ("IPL the system") with past tense ("then we IPLed") and present tense ("while we were IPLing") and so forth - as well as a noun ("after the next IPL.") PTF - Program Temporary Fix IBM would distribute bug fixes on diskettes called PTF diskettes. By applying PTFs, you were able to address known and often unknown software problems. When the next release was issued (S/34's last release was Rel ...

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System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS.

System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS.

IPL - Initial Program Load

Starting or restarting the system. This acronym was pronounced eye-pee-ell and was used as a verb ("IPL the system") with past tense ("then we IPLed") and present tense ("while we were IPLing") and so forth - as well as a noun ("after the next IPL.")

PTF - Program Temporary Fix

IBM would distribute bug fixes on diskettes called PTF diskettes. By applying PTFs, you were able to address known and often unknown software problems. When the next release was issued (S/34's last release was Release 9 in 1981) the old PTFs were incorporated into the release update diskettes you received, and the old diskettes became useless. Since 8" diskettes were US$5 apiece retail in the 1980s, most S/34 programmers had a drawer full of them, usually for their own (not the company's) purposes. Since PTFs were only temporary in the sense that they were superseded by later releases of SSP, using the name "PTF" was considered odd.