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operating system (from "bootstrap" or "to pull oneself up

by one's bootstraps") To load and initialise the operatingsystem on a computer.

See reboot, cold boot, warm boot, soft boot, hardboot, bootstrap, bootstrap loader.

(1995-11-27)

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