[TUHS] What does `ld` stand for?

John Levine via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Tue Oct 27 09:36:10 AEST 2026


It appears that Phillip Harbison via TUHS <alvitar at xavax.com> said:
>Next you took your tape to the input drive of the 704. The loader seemed 
>to be implicit as in you pushed the "Load Tape" button and it loaded and 
>ran whatever was on the tape. I guess you could say the human operator 
>was the "loader". ;) Your program wrote to an output drive. You then 
>took that tape to an output station which read the tape and printed the 
>results.

IBJOB had a loader but this sounds older than that.

R's,
John


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