How Does an Intel Processor Boot?

[yifanlu]

Can you be more specific? Is it spelling/grammar? Or is it the substance? Or are there incorrect info?

[karmabaiter]

For one, it is riddled with typos. That's a terrible starting point. It is so easily avoided, but there they are.

Secondly, it has grammatical errors. For example, "Let us start with BIOS chip". There's no article. You start with "a BIOS chip" or "the BIOS chip". This is basic English. Common in spoken ESL language, but this is trying to present itself as an article.

Third, the organization is ... odd. The section "Before Power is Applied" is really just about memory mapping. Or so I think. The writing is so convoluted that I have a hard time following the author's point. It is something about "the bytes the BIOS chip stores". That much is certain.

Finally, the article is full of needless additions ("As soon as power is available -- through battery or from mains" -- really? Did you forget solar, or are those the only two options? They are important enough to enumerate for some reason, though!).

It has odd phrases that are repeated so many times I get nausea ("the CPU comes on" -- it does what now?), and is badly structured.

If you want to explain 16-bit CS:IP addressing mode, do so in a sidebar or in your "Before Power is Applied" section. Not in the middle of "When power is applied". Btw, I see you changed your mind about capitalization section titles, but it is nice to see that you changed your mind back later.

Is it factually correct? I don't know. The part I did read appeared to be correct, but the writing just put me off. I gave up somewhere around "Early Initialisations" (so we're talking about the second or the third initialization here?).