In some electronic devices that have a dedicated reset button in them, how does pressing it actually reset the whole device?

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In some electronic devices that have a dedicated reset button in them, how does pressing it actually reset the whole device?

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Processors have hardware pins that when turned on reset the processor, this usually just means it goes back to execute code that is run at startup, this code effectively restarts the system, but it might be implemented differently