Autoload Definition/Meaning:
1. A facility provided on some tape transports whereby a tape reel is
automatically located and clamped on the hub and the tape is then automatically
threaded. However the term is widely used as if synonymous with autothread,
even when the reel has to be manually placed on the hub. It is also used as a
verb: to load a tape reel on a tape transport automatically by the use of the
autoload.
2. A facility in a magnetic tape subsystem whereby a single
unqualified command from the host causes a quantity of data from the tape
mounted on a transport, selected according to predetermined rules, to be read
and transferred to the host. The function is provided to assist in initial
program loading. The corresponding process in which data is written to tape is known as
autodump.
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