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04-16-2003, 04:05 PM
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What do you call...
A PC with 3 O/S's is called a triple boot system.
A PC with 2 O/S's is called a dual boot system. What do you call a PC with 4 O/S's? A quad-boot system?
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04-16-2003, 04:08 PM
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That's what I would call it. If I wanted to pitch it on TV, I would call it "Quadraboot technology" or something similar.
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04-16-2003, 04:16 PM
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Well, consider Unreal Tournament:
2 is "Double Kill" 3 is "Multi Kill" 4 is "Mega Kill" 5 is "Ultra Kill" 6 is "Monster Kill" Anything above this is marketed as "versatile". These translate over to Computer hardware quite nicely. Thus you have a "Mega Kill Boot" Respectfully, Demosthenes |
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04-16-2003, 04:21 PM
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 I just did a google seach for these: "Quad boot" - 311 hits "Quadraboot" - 1 hit "Quadra boot" - 111 hits It certainly isn't very common... 
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04-16-2003, 04:34 PM
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I just use "multi-boot" for anything over 2.
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04-16-2003, 07:25 PM
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I use multi-boot for anything over two as well.
Multi-kill works for me
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04-17-2003, 05:59 PM
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Thanks guys!
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04-19-2003, 09:27 PM
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Force Flow, Logically, the name should be "quadruple boot".
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04-19-2003, 09:36 PM
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quadruple boot - 102 hits in google.
 Logically, but it sure is a mouthful!
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04-19-2003, 09:43 PM
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yea well think about a boot with 8. an "Octagonal Boot" (pronounced: oc-TAG-o-nal, not: oc-ta-GON-al)
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04-19-2003, 10:39 PM
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How many people do you think actuall have that many O/S's on their system?
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04-19-2003, 11:27 PM
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As long as we are being proper:
Would it not be "Octal Boot"? "Octagonal", I thought, refers to geometry and polygons, whereas the base, "octal", refers to anything of a factor of 8. (i.e. an octal number system, octal music pitch, etc). Just technicalities. ;) Respectfully, Demosthenes |
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