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

From	Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.sys.intel, comp.os.vms, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or spectre?
Date	2018-01-29 18:08 -0500
Message-ID	<fd9nqoFp7djU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<e66713528ffe8ca0a8b2e79e2133037d@dizum.com> <973f7f34a3fab7ad4f0e584e782eb6a6@dizum.com> <p4o4po$cbn$2@dont-email.me>

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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.  :-)

bill

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Re: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to meltdown or  spectre? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-01-29 19:26 +0100
  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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