[carguy1983]

From wikipedia:

That is to say, the reset vector is a pointer or address where the CPU should always begin as soon as it is able to execute instructions.

In other words, people who have lots of experience in this stuff gloss over the fact that "reset vector" doesn't mean reset at all, it actually means "whenever it's turned on, it jumps to this address and starts executing instructions".

[samaraga]

That "reset vector doesn't mean 'reset at all'" was what I wasn't able to pick up. Now it makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying.