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How computers boot

Posted on 11 June 2008 @ 1:38 pm. This post has no comments. Tagged , .

Even if it is occasionally too technical for me to fully understand, I still found this description of what happens when a computer is turned on and boots up interesting, probably because I like to be reminded that they aren’t just magic machines designed to pluck videos of cats from the ether.


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