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IPL
Last modified: Monday, June 10, 2002
Short for
i
nitial
p
rogram
l
oad
, the process of loading the
operating system
of a
mainframe
into the computer's main memory. IPL is the mainframe equivalent of
booting
or rebooting a personal computer.
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