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Re:How a computer boots up by mbell on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @10:47PM (#3830795)
> Old 8bit processors just start with the instruction pointer at a known value (e.g. 0x0000).

So do new 8bit processors and almost all processors, x86 cpus still have a reset vector, its 0xFFFFFFF0.

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