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booting

Drug slang
A regional term for the intravenous injection of an abuse substance, followed by withdrawing blood into a syringe before reinjecting, as a way to wash the syringe out of residual abuse substace.

Informatics
See Boot.

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The boot ROM is 512 KB Flash EPROM, and it contains the initialization and test routines for startup.

Expansion module provides fast hardware/software integration

ROM emulators replace the boot ROM, substituting diagnostic code for the processor's normal boot code.

On-chip emulation for functional test and diagnosis. (Board ATE)

In addition to a Wake-ON-LAN functionality, an optional boot ROM is available to allow booting a remote station automatically from a server, making hard or floppy disks unnecessary.