Function, releases, content
Terminology can be confusing in the computer business, especially when dealing with systems such as zPDT. In this documentation we use the following terminology:
•The base machine, or underlying host, or underlying Linux, or host Linux is the Intel-compatible personal computer (PC) that is running Linux.
•z/OS is used to refer to any recent release of the z/OS operating system. Likewise for z/VM, and so forth.
•A device map, or devmap, is used to specify the operational configuration of zPDT. It is a simple Linux flat ...