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Some of the time is because they have a single board computer, and only licensing the BIOS. You'll know if that's the case if after the boot, you see it purposely set the time to something arbitrary, but dating back to the 90's. To the flight entertainment, the date doesn't really matter. For the licensing however, it does.

Also elsewhere in the boot, you might notice they tend to be 80486 CPU emulation boards from Cyrix. They're not fast at all, but for what they do, they don't need to be.

Also, if you took video instead of a pic, there are a few interesting IP addresses might scroll by as the media program gets initialized.



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