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From: Peter =?iso-8859-1?Q?W=E4chtler?= <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>
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To: Alon Altman <alon@vipe.technion.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?
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Alon Altman schrieb:
> 
> 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?
> 

Well, I would guess: VM in this context: virtual machine
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