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• boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
  This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....
• War is just another government program. -- Joseph Sobra
• footprint n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
  2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, `footprints')....
• PabMail: Just another stupid TURBO BASIC XL Program!
• ystem n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
  2. The entire computer system, including input/output devices, the supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software....
• ystem: n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
  2. The entire computer system, including input/output devices, the supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software....
• Look at it this way: MSDOS is an overgrown program loade
  he MacOS is an overgrown user interface. Neither is an operating system, but the second is better for running applications....
• One thing can be said without anyone questioning it, Yassir Arafat is not just another pretty face.
• prettyprint /prit'ee-print/ v. (alt. `pretty-print') 1.
  To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a hairy internal representatio...