Saturday, March 13, 2010

Boot


A computer "Boot (shortened word for Bootstrap)" is known as the start-up process used to turn on an Operating System, when activated by a user. It is a sequence of operations which then start the main OS and this term comes from a metaphor in which a person can pull the straps of leather boots without outside help, and in computers it means that a system cannot start without the software being loaded first. That's why when you turn on a computer, it enters a Boot sequence.

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