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I must be missing something: but why did they keep reimplementing this in modern CPU's ? (Or did they remove it from modern CPU's?)
by Qantourisc 11y ago
I must be missing something: but why did they keep reimplementing this in modern CPU's ? (Or did they remove it from modern CPU's?)
- mschuster91 11y agoIntel did remove it in the modern CPUs after the author alerted them. As for why it stuck around until now: backwards compatibility + that CPUs are rather rarely constructed from scratch, rather evolved upon.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago> Intel did remove it in the modern CPUs after the author alerted them. No, they just added security checks.