Re: For decades now
"You don't need to update the bootstrap code very often, if at all, for the life of the machine."
We only recently had to patch the BIOS of most recent corporate PCs due to a critical UEFI vulnerability.
Also the boot code is still part of the BIOS which is on a single flash chip - and that typically requires several updates over the life of a PC.
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