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I love this! Maybe dive a little deeper? Like, what happens from power on to login prompt. Like, power good > get instruction from predetermined address > execute (BIOS code) > init hardware > change to protected mode > load OS, etc.

Different cpus are different, of course, but they all go through a similar start up sequence. Again, nicely done.



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