really the PC boot process is a lot of convincing the processor and chipset that you know it's not 1981
which doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things since it's not that much code or silicon waste but it's pretty funny just how bad it is
@chjara If someone told Motorola in the 1980 that their boring MC146818B RTC chip is eventually going to have a remake on a 7 nm process node, everyone would see it as a bad joke. But it's exactly what's inside every Intel PCH or AMD CPU today (Yes, the motherboard coin cell goes directly into the CPU). Why? It was on the IBM PC...
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