This document describes the Miniloader, a program for Alpha based systems that can be used to initialize the machine and load Linux. The Alpha Linux Miniloader (to give it it's full
name) is also known as MILO.
Tar Tape Archive, a Tape Archive is a program that joins together a series of files into one large file. Commonly used with the gzip utility to compress the resulting file, it's the standard way of distributing source code. Such archives typically have a .tar.gz or .tgz extension.
