Or: the story of a bug that turned out to be more correct than the correct code

Boot sequence

Year: somewhere between 1983 and 1987.

Iron: a custom board — Motorola 68000 (32-bit. Pure luxury. The HW team argued about it for a week.) and a Texas Instruments TMS34010, one of the first programmable graphics chips on the planet.

VRAM: 256 kilobytes. That's not a typo.