Hi :) Thanks all that responded to this! Now i'm curious where the phrase "raising yourself by your own bootstraps" came from. Is it something to do with horses? Postal services? Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Monday, 8 October 2012, 23:34 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] attempting to find an answer and instead ... > >On 10/08/2012 04:52 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Tom Davies wrote: >> >>> Hi :) Speculation can provide a lot of amusement. I like Anne-ology's >>> explanation. The real answer is quite good too. So, where did "boot-up" >>> come from? Wasn't that soem engineering term to do with subs too? Regards >>> from Tom :) >/snip/ > >The term "boot" or "boot up" comes from the idea of raising yourself by your >own bootstraps--seemingly impossible, but when you boot up, you are >using the operating system to start itself. > >--doug > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
