“Bootstrapping a computer refers to performing a procedure which loads the INITIAL program that enables the computer to run other programs and do it’s ‘work’”
Close. I’d say further that the earlier computers had no program at all in them when turned on. There was no rom in the computer to contain startup code. On the particular computer I used first, we’d have to put an input instruction into the console keys and have it executed. That single instruction would read in the startup code and jump to it. “bootstrapping” was an apt term for this situation.
Isn’t it something how the term “reboot” has come into use to mean restarting a previously ended tv series.
Re TV series.
I don’t know how old you are but they’ve rebooted the Thundercats. The promos alone show it to be badly drawn with infantile stories ... and promos typically have tried to put the best foot forward on new shows.
Frankly, when they were making cartoons just to sell crap the cartoons at least looked as good or better than the crap they were selling.