- Operating systems are designed to run on any of a class of machines; the system must be configured for each specific computer site -SYSGEN program obtains information concerning the specific configuration of the hardware system- Booting
– starting a computer by loading the kernel- Bootstrap program
– code stored in ROM that is able to locate the kernel, load it into memory, and start its execution
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