booting
booting
Generally it's called "booting up" the system
Most definitely, this is called booting. In the old days (of mainframes), it was called IPL (for Initial Program Load).
An operating system loads via the memory of a computer. The specific area that gets the operating system to load is called the boot loader.
ms-dos
loading
the operating system. There are many different types though, mac made one called MacOsx, microsoft made one called windows, and linux made one called ubuntu.
Boot is short for "Bootstrap". It's from the aphorism to "pull one's self up by one's bootstraps." A bootstrap load was the way early computer manufacturers described the process of a computer loading its operating system.
loading
The first computer operating system developed for personal computers was called MS-DOS, which was released in 1981 by Microsoft. MS-DOS was an Affordablekey and easy-to-use operating system that allowed users to access the power of a computer. It was also the first operating system to be widely used on personal computers and it was the most popular operating system until the early 1990s. MS-DOS was the foundation of Microsoft's success and it helped to revolutionize the computing industry.
personal computer
Standalone Operating System