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Changing bootstrap

Hmm.. almost reminds me of The Gold Rush by Charles Chaplin. Must see if not already. But I refer to the changes the boot sequence of the personal computer has undergone over time. The term booting a computer actually bears its origins I believe to the art of strapping up them boots before heading out to do what was needed to be done. When I first encountered the fancy calculator it had a switch called AC or ON. That's it. You press it and the 7 element LCD started glowing bright. You could proceed to add or multiply or subtract if you chose and get an answer - lightning quick. Then came the need to do more than just algebra. We wanted to process words and work on elaborating the non elaboratable along with spreading the numbers to cover sheets requiring the invention of a personal computing device. This could not merely be a matter of hitting the ON button. OH NO. You now had to coax the sleeping brain out of its stupor by kicking it with an operating system or the OS....