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  2. StartX - Wikipedia

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    StartX is a non-profit startup accelerator and founder community associated with Stanford University.. It was founded by Cameron Teitelman and Dan Ha in 2011. [1] [2] [3] It began as a spin-off of Stanford Student Enterprises, the non-profit financial arm of the Associated Students of Stanford University, which sponsored earlier events called SSE Labs in 2009 and then SSE Ventures.

  3. xinit - Wikipedia

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    The startx script is a front-end for xinit. By default, xinit and startx start an X display server pointing to a display device that is enumerated as :0 and then start an xterm on it. When the xterm terminates, xinit and startx kill the X display server. In general, xinit and startx can start an arbitrary server and run an arbitrary script.

  4. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. It is the first program launched by the BIOS or UEFI of the computer and is responsible for loading the rest of Windows. [ 1 ]

  5. launchd - Wikipedia

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    launchd has two main tasks. The first is to boot the system, and the second is to load and maintain services. Here is a simplified view of the Mac OS X Tiger system startup on a PowerPC Mac (on an Intel Mac, EFI replaces Open Firmware and boot.efi replaces BootX): Open Firmware activates, initializes the hardware, and then loads BootX.

  6. Comparison of bootloaders - Wikipedia

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    Note: The column MBR (Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record) refers to the ability of the boot loader to be stored in the first sector of any partition on a mass storage device.

  7. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded, the kernel starts the session manager (smss.exe), which begins the login process. After the user has successfully logged into the machine, winlogon applies User and Computer Group Policy setting and runs startup programs declared in the Windows Registry and in "Startup" folders. [5]

  8. Architecture of Windows 9x - Wikipedia

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    MSDOS.SYS - Contains some low-level boot settings and resources such as disabling double-buffering and the GUI logo; WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI - Configuration files from Windows 3.1 which are processed in Windows 9x also; Virtual Machine Manager and configuration manager: VMM32.VXD - Virtual machine manager and default drivers. It takes over from ...

  9. Boot ROM - Wikipedia

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    When a system on a chip (SoC) enters suspend to RAM mode, in many cases, the processor is completely off while the RAM is put in self refresh mode. At resume, the boot ROM is executed again and many boot ROMs are able to detect that the SoC was in suspend to RAM and can resume by jumping directly to the kernel which then takes care of powering on again the peripherals which were off and ...