Notes on Computers From First Principles- 2 - The Boot Process

1 year ago
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I get the sense this could be better. You can't really...*feel* the design decisions.
Maybe I'll have to redo it sometime.

00:00 I thrashed my voice...
00:15 THE RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTTT
00:59 Going From Ideal to Real
02:17 Model Expansion
03:00 How does this thing boot.
03:56 Splitting up the process
06:32 Technology Progressed
08:01 An Example of Said Progress
09:25 An Unqualified Note on Security

Old Punchcard Bootloading: https://www.righto.com/2021/02/an-ibm-1401-mainframe-computer-at.html
Book on BIOS to UEFI: http://ftp.kolibrios.org/users/seppe/UEFI/Beyond_BIOS_Second_Edition_Digital_Edition_(15-12-10)%20.pdf
Apple Security Document: https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_ROM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

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