单词 | to boot up |
释义 | > as lemmasto boot up a. transitive. To prepare (a computer) for operation by causing an operating system to be loaded into its memory from a disc or tape, esp. by a bootstrap routine; to cause (an operating system or a program) to be loaded in this way; to load the program on (a disc) into a computer's memory. Also to boot up. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > software > load system [verb (transitive)] bootstrap1962 to boot up1980 society > computing and information technology > hardware > use hardware [verb (transitive)] > make operational enable1962 boot1980 1980 M. E. Sloan Introd. Minicomputers & Microcomputers vi. 158 We turn the power knob to on, and depress the control and boot switches. We call this procedure booting the system…The computer is now in the machine language mode, in which machine language programs can be entered and run. 1982 Flores & Terry Microcomputer Systems ii. 40 Upon turn-on, control immediately goes to the ROM monitor or to BASIC, which issues a prompt. The operator then types in a monitor (or BASIC) command to boot the disk operating system. 1984 C. Hitching & D. Stone Understanding Accounting! i. 1 The data processing manager is rushing around making sure..that they have all remembered to ‘boot’ their disks before settling down with their micros! 1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 137/3 Booting up gem is an interesting experience. 1985 Pract. Computing May 82/1 When you first boot Deskmate it comes up in monochrome. 1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Oct. 29/1 If you boot up your system without the keyboard being plugged in, you will see an error message. < as lemmas |
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