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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:03:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Alon Altman <alon@vipe.technion.ac.il>
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To: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
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Subject: Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, J Sloan wrote:

> Pozsar Balazs wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is not a bugreport, but a simple question: :)
> > where does the term vmlinuz come from?
>
> compressed vmlinux = vmlinux.z -> vmlinuz?

  Yes, but I think he wanted to know where 'vmlinux' came from... what does
the "vm" stand for? Virtual Memory?

  Alon

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