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A PC booter, or booter, is a type of software for home computer era (early 1980s to early 1990s) personal computer that was loaded and executed in the bootup of the computer, from a bootable floppy disk, rather than as a regular program; a booter thus bypassed any operating system that might be installed on the hard disk of the PC. Games were the type of software most commonly distributed as booters. Reasons for preferring booters to standard programs include ease of use (the software would... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 24, 2006
Last edited by pipeline Apr 25, 2008
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