> Mostly just questionable hardware design and spoiled programmers who want to do too much in early boot. There is no technical reason why you couldn't have a m

> Mostly just questionable hardware design and spoiled programmers who want to do too much in early boot. There is no technical reason why you couldn't have a modern desktop booting in a couple of milliseconds. It's a tradeoff between being fast and being compatible with the rest of the world. You wouldn't even be able to initialize CPU & DRAM in "couple of milliseconds" Loading BIOS from flash alone would eat that budget few times over