Bootstrapping#Computing

Bootstrapping referred to in the computer science a process of a more complex system enabled on a simple system. There is a solution to the chicken-and- egg problem to start a system by itself. The term is often used for the starting operation of a computer, in which a mechanism is needed to start the software, which is responsible for launching other software ( operating system). Even the launch of a software installation, in which an upgrade of the installation program is first performed, is called bootstrapping.

First used in computer jargon, the term used bootstrapping in the early 1950s by the short story By His Bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein that was first published in 1941. Similar to the German Baron Munchausen himself pulled from an own bootstraps pulls you look for an English phrase to his bootstraps (English bootstraps ) even over a fence (see for bootstrapping.)

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