Ed Sharpe wrote:
>what about xenon processors??
Xenon? You mean the processor jointly developed by Microsoft & IBM based on
the PowerPC architecture, developed and used in the Xbox 360?
Or perhaps did you mean Xeon (note no N in the middle)? There is a big
difference.
Don't know if the Xeno
I misspoke - Spectre potentially affects all processors that use
*pipelining and speculative execution*, not just superscalar ones (I
mis-parsed "all modern processors capable of keeping many instructions
in flight").
There's been ongoing patches to the Linux kernel for Meltdown (and for
other OSe
http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-starts-issuing-patches-for-meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities/?loc=newsletter_large_thumb_related&ftag=TREc64629f&bhid=46856739
this just hit my email box. Ed#
In a message dated 1/4/2018 1:54:43 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org writes
oh oh
hopefully software fix soon?
Ed#
In a message dated 1/4/2018 1:54:43 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
From the exploit homepage (https://spectreattack.com/) , it seems like the
Meltdown vulnerability affects all out-of-order executing Intel *branded
what about xenon processors??
ed#
In a message dated 1/4/2018 1:18:14 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
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