bootstrap loader in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The regular loader read a more compact format tape than the bootstrap loader.
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A very small (about 20 instructions) bootstrap loader could be held at the front of each program tape, but even this approach was not always used.
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In computing, a bootstrap loader is the first piece of code that runs when a machine starts.
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To do this, it looks for the bootstrap loader on each disk in sequence.
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Since the early minicomputers used magnetic core memory, which did not lose its information when power was off, these bootstrap loaders would remain in place unless they were erased.
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In order to do anything useful, the user had to enter a small program known as the bootstrap loader into the machine using these switches, a process known as booting.
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