What is boot camp and what does it do? Do we need anything to use it?

What is boot camp and what does it do?
What do we need to start this thing?
What things do we have to be careful with it?

Make good backups of your OSX partition before any BootCamp operation (setup or removal).
BootCamp alters the boot sector of the disk, which hold information about the OSX partition.  Some people report that BootCamp has left the boot sector data about the OSX partition damaged -- very rarely, but it happens.

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