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  2. Booting - Wikipedia

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    Booting. A flow diagram of a computer booting. In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button on the computer or by a software command. After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit (CPU) has no software in its main memory, so some process must load software into memory ...

  3. Bootstrapping (electronics) - Wikipedia

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    In the field of electronics, a technique where part of the output of a system is used at startup can be described as bootstrapping. A bootstrap circuit is one where part of the output of an amplifier stage is applied to the input, so as to alter the input impedance of the amplifier. When applied deliberately, the intention is usually to ...

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    Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects : Commons. Free media repository. MediaWiki. Wiki software development. Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia project coordination. Wikibooks. Free textbooks and manuals.

  5. Sinking of the Titanic - Wikipedia

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    1,490–1,635. RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 ( ship's time) [a] on 14 April.

  6. Global Descriptor Table - Wikipedia

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    Global Descriptor Table. The Global Descriptor Table ( GDT) is a data structure used by Intel x86 -family processors starting with the 80286 in order to define the characteristics of the various memory areas used during program execution, including the base address, the size, and access privileges like executability and writability.

  7. Installation (computer programs) - Wikipedia

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    Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins ), is the act of making the program ready for execution. Installation refers to the particular configuration of software or hardware with a view to making it usable with the computer. A soft or digital copy of the piece of software (program) is needed to install it.

  8. PDP-8 - Wikipedia

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    The PDP-8 has only three programmer-visible registers: A 12-bit accumulator (AC), a program counter (PC), and a carry flag called the "link register" (L). Additional registers not visible to the programmer are a memory-buffer register and a memory-address register. To save money, these serve multiple purposes at different points in the ...

  9. List of Internet top-level domains - Wikipedia

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    In use for some URL abbreviations related to Google such as forms.gle and goo.gle. Charleston Road Registry Inc. (a Google subsidiary) Un­known: Yes .global: general, companies or individuals with a global focus or presence — Dot GLOBAL: Yes: Yes .gmbh: German limited liability companies — Binky Moon, LLC.gold