Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre?

From	Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
References	<e66713528ffe8ca0a8b2e79e2133037d@dizum.com> <973f7f34a3fab7ad4f0e584e782eb6a6@dizum.com> <p4o4po$cbn$2@dont-email.me> <fd9nqoFp7djU1@mid.individual.net>
Subject	Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre?
Message-ID	<2dda39f3416c7cc9dd15d04775d25d68@dizum.com> (permalink)
Date	2018-01-30 13:40 +0100
Newsgroups	alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.sys.intel, comp.os.vms, comp.os.linux.advocacy
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In article <fd9nqoFp7djU1@mid.individual.net>
Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/29/2018 04:47 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
> > Nomen Nescio wrote:
> >> In article <e66713528ffe8ca0a8b2e79e2133037d@dizum.com>
> >> Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Subject: Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to
> >>>>> meltdown or spectre
> >>>>   The problem is chip based, not OS based.
> >>> Right.  But there are other chips on which Linux runs, such as various
> >>> RISC chips.  What currently available computers use one of these other
> >>> chips?
> >>>
> >>>>  So all OSs are susceptible.
> >>> Not those running on chips other than Intel, AMD, or ARM.
> >>
> >> I don't have any issues with my Alphas.
> >>
> >> But then Alpha processors were designed by smarter engineers than
> >> Intel's H1B clowns.
> >>
> >
> > One might be surprised to find out how many of those Intel and AMD chip
> > people were also the ones who worked on Alpha.
> >
>
> I was being nice and not mentioning this.  :-)

You're both being thick.

The problem has been around since the mid 90's.  The Alpha teams 
weren't sold until 5-6 years later.

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Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-01-29 21:20 +0100
  Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre? DaveFroble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> - 2018-01-29 16:47 -0500
    Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre? Helmut <pills@carters.com> - 2018-01-29 22:44 +0000
    Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre? Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2018-01-29 18:08 -0500
      Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-01-30 13:40 +0100
    Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2018-01-29 18:31 -0500
    Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-01-30 00:26 +0100

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