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From: Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:30:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A3E865-2557-47C6-8359-DEAFDF8571E6@tfeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <117BE24B-C768-43ED-A470-40FCD1662ECD@bitblocks.com>

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On 26 Jun 2018, at 23:20, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> 
> With new attacks like TLBleed etc. it is becoming increasingly clear that
> caching (hidden memory to continue with the illusion of a simple memory
> model) itself is a potential security issue. I didn't think anything the
> author said was particularly controversial any more. A lot of processor
> evolution seems to have been to accommodate C's simple memory model.

That's the strangest thing to see: *why do people think the point he's making is in any way controversial*, because it's so obvious.

(But then I'm also annoyed by the paper because I've been talking about 'giant PDP-11s' for a long time and now he's stolen (obviously not stolen: independently come up with) my term, pretty much.)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-27  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-26 17:54 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-26 18:03 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-06-26 21:21   ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-26 21:56   ` Kurt H Maier
2018-06-26 18:52 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 19:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 21:16   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-26 21:50     ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-26 21:54       ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 21:59         ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-26 22:20           ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-26 22:33             ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-26 23:53               ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-27  8:30             ` Tim Bradshaw [this message]
2018-06-26 22:33           ` Andy Kosela
2018-06-27  0:11             ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-27  6:10               ` arnold
2018-06-27  2:18           ` [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectTures Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-27  2:22             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-28 14:36             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-27 11:26         ` [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures Tony Finch
2018-06-27 14:33           ` Clem Cole
2018-06-27 14:38             ` Clem Cole
2018-06-27 15:30             ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-27 16:55               ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-27  6:27     ` arnold
2018-06-27 16:00 ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-28  4:12   ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-28 14:15     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-28 14:40       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 14:55         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 14:58           ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 15:39             ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-28 16:02               ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 16:41                 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-28 16:59                   ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 17:09                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 15:32                     ` tfb
2018-06-29 16:09                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 17:51                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 18:27                         ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-29 19:02                         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 20:37                 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 15:37         ` Clem Cole
2018-06-28 20:37           ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-28 14:43       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 14:56         ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 15:07           ` Warner Losh
2018-06-28 19:42           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 19:55             ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 20:42             ` Warner Losh
2018-06-28 21:03               ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 22:29                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-29  0:18                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 15:41                     ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 18:01                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 19:07                         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29  5:58                   ` Michael Kjörling
2018-06-28 20:52             ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-28 21:07               ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 16:45       ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 20:47         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 15:43         ` emanuel stiebler
2018-06-29  2:02       ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-29 12:58         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-29 18:41           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29  1:02 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-29  1:06 Noel Chiappa

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