Re: "Meltdown" and "Spectre": Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws
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On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 02:41:57PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Does any of the processors in the M68K family support VM?
>
> They did since the early 1980s when i wondered what the advantage of an
> 68010 would be over an 68000 (with HP BASIC: none).
> http://gunkies.org/wiki/MC68010
>
> After all, early Sun, HP and Apollo Unix workstations were based on 680X0.
With TLB cache and all that? Pretty impressive :)
> > Does any of the M68K family members prefetch speculatively?
>
> The last one (68060) had Branch Prediction, which implies some kind of
> speculative execution and data prefetching.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000_series
I remember at the time to be pretty discouraging to see 8086 and ilk
eating all the market.
> Man against hardware. Who will finally win ?
Hardware.
Cheers
- -- t
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