Does anyone have a good (short) source they could link me which summarizes the "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" nature of computing, in terms of a how modern OS's bootloading sequence steps are a tour though successive eras of computer history?
Is this even still true?
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the osdev wiki doesn't count as short, right? otherwise I'd link something like wiki.osdev.org/System_Initial / wiki.osdev.org/Real_Mode
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thank you! this is a helpful lead, i remember maybe there was an online book out there that was covering this stuff in a more editorialized way
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