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Boot is short for bootstrap [1] [2] or bootstrap load and derives from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. [3] [4] The usage calls attention to the requirement that, if most software is loaded onto a computer by other software already running on the computer, some mechanism must exist to load the initial software onto the ...
The popular Bootstrap frontend framework was also started at Twitter and is 10th most popular repository on GitHub. [264] On March 31, 2023, Twitter released the source code for Twitter's recommendation algorithm, [265] which determines what tweets show up on the user's personal timeline, to GitHub. According to Twitter's blog post: "We believe ...
Carousel memory (magnetic rolls). In early computers, magnetic storage was also used as: Primary storage in a form of magnetic memory, or core memory, core rope memory, thin-film memory and/or twistor memory; Tertiary (e.g. NCR CRAM) or off line storage in the form of magnetic cards; Magnetic tape was then often used for secondary storage.