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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=computing">computing</a>, <b>booting</b> is the process of starting a <a href="page.php?w=computer">computer</a> as initiated via <a href="page.php?w=Computer_hardware">hardware</a> such as a physical button on the computer or by a <a href="page.php?w=software">software</a> command, first described in the 1950s as the "bootstrap technique." After it is switched on, a computer's <a href="page.php?w=central_processing_unit">central processing unit</a> (CPU) has no software in its <a href="page.php?w=main_memory">main memory</a>,</p><p>
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