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[โ€“] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Boot = Bootstrap

If you've loaded up a virtual CPU first that's not a boot of mainline Linux on the CPU.

[โ€“] stingpie@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I respectfully disagree. The turning machine is not doing any set-up before the emulated CPU begins execution, and all of the actual BIOS is done by the emulated CPU.