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bootstrap loader


A short ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=program">program loaded from {non-volatile storage} and used to {bootstrap} a computer. On early computers great efforts were expended on making the bootstrap loader short, in order to make it easy to ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=toggle">toggle in via the ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=front panel">front panel switches. It was just clever enough to read in a slightly more complex ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=program">program (usually from ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=punched cards">punched cards or ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=paper tape">paper tape), to which it handed control. This ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=program">program in turn read the ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=application">application or {operating system} from a {magnetic tape} drive or {disk drive}. Thus, in successive steps, the ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=computer">computer "pulled itself up by its bootstraps" to a useful operating state. Nowadays the bootstrap loader is usually found in ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=ROM">ROM or ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=EPROM">EPROM, and reads the first stage in from a fixed location on the ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=disk">disk, called the "ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=boot block">boot block". When this ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=program">program gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=OS">OS and hand control over to it. A ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=diskless workstation">diskless workstation can use ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bootp">bootp to load its OS from the network. (2005-04-12)

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