Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: "Meltdown" and "Spectre": Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 08:32:17PM -0500, SDA wrote: > Show who you're quoting with an attribution line, please! With proper attribution, we might know who you are addressing with this statement... Cheers, Tom -- What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't but one thing wrong with

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: "Meltdown" and "Spectre": Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

On 2018-01-08, SDA wrote: > Show who you're quoting with an attribution line, please! > Tit for tat, unintended irony, blatant hypocrisy, or something else (I'm leaning toward the foremost, but you never know)? Apropos, as revealed in another thread, I'm dying to

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: "Meltdown" and "Spectre": Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

Show who you're quoting with an attribution line, please!

[OFFTOPIC] Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

> Is it correct to call branch prediction the same as speculative execution? Not really: they're closely related yet different. Stefan

[OFFTOPIC] Re: "Meltdown" and "Spectre": Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

>> With TLB cache and all that? Pretty impressive :) > I am not sure about the 68010 and its separate MMU. But beginning with 68020 > there surely was memory space separation per process and cache memory in the > CPU. The 68020 didn't have an MMU on chip (it required a separate chip (MC68851) if