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HPR3430: Booting
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English - September 24, 2021 00:00 - 6.57 MB - ★★★★ - 34 ratingsTechnology News Tech News community radio tech interviews linux open hobby software freedom Homepage Download IPFS Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The boot process is a very particular system for taking a dead hunk of metal and silicon and turning it into an active computer. It is kind of remarkable, and in the DOS environment you really needed to know how it worked.
Links:
http://webopedia.com/TERM/B/BIOS.html
http://webopedia.com/TERM/R/ROM.html
http://webopedia.com/TERM/C/CMOS.html
http://webopedia.com/TERM/p/power_on_self_test.html
http://webopedia.com/TERM/M/MBR.html
http://webopedia.com/TERM/k/kernel.html
http://webopedia.com/TERM/s/shell.html
http://webopedia.com/TERM/i/internal_command.html
http://webopedia.com/TERM/b/batch_file.html
https://www.ahuka.com/dos-lessons-for-self-study-purposes/dos-lesson-2-booting/