On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Fernando Herrero Carrón <elfe...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> My understanding is that BIOSes still boot through kind of a legacy 32-bit
> path and UEFI boots straight 64-bit with all the bells and whistles. In
> fact:


Actually, they boot through a legacy 16 bit path, with access to only the
first 1MB of RAM until they can initialize native mode.

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