Boot
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The process whereby a computer automatically loads its startup software when it has been turned on. Also called “boot up,” the term derives from the phrase “to lift oneself up by one’s own bootstraps.”[1]
Footnotes
- ^ Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005).
