Arthur Clarke interview
Clarke is one of my favorite writers, and this is a pretty interesting interview. Interesting enough that I’ll forgive his incorrect derivation of the word “boot” as in “boot a computer”.
My understanding of the correct derivation goes something like this: the computer needs some initial code to even know how to begin loading the operating system and figure out how to execute programs. This is seemingly a logical impossibility, similar to pulling onself up by one’s bootstraps, and so computers are said to be “booted”.
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