Why is the first BIOS instruction located at 0xFFFFFFF0 ("top" of RAM)?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/988473/w...

Accepted answer links:
[UEFI]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Ext...
[MMU]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_man...

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