Talk:Quiesce

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Quiesce to my knowledge does not mean to slow down - it comes from Latin to pertain to 'to make quieter'. On IBM Mainframes the QUIESCE command under JES2 was the ultimate shutdown command - you only ever used it to power down a mainframe (something in 5 years I only ever got to do once). It also is a command used in MQ Series (now part of websphere) to shutdown the application.

The posted definition was just copied word for word from another website, and I question its correctness.

How do we pronounce "Quiesce"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.246.194.206 (talk) 06:45, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]