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Business cards could actually read in most drives, unlike those funky shape CDs.

@camedei456 @kaia @fgaz Why's it called "booting" when it has nothing to do with a boot? Computer terms always confuse me...

@Jazzy_Butts @kaia @fgaz
to be "booting" would mean that there's data that could be used with no operating system on that computer.
Most Linux distros are bootable. So are Windows installer discs.
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@camedei456 @kaia @fgaz I wish they had chosen a different term, like "initialization", I read a little bit about it now and it looks like it used to be called bootstrapping, and again, if I was a peer among them at the time I would have shaken my head autistically and furiously stated that this has nothing to do with footwear

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