If DEC had won, would we have the same issue? "In some cases there’s non-privileged access to suitable timers. For example, in the essentially obsolete Digital

If DEC had won, would we have the same issue? "In some cases there’s non-privileged access to suitable timers. For example, in the essentially obsolete Digital/Compaq Alpha processors the architecture includes a processor cycle counter that is readable with a non-privileged instruction. That makes attacks based on timing relatively easy to implement if you can execute appropriate code." I still call bullshit on his entire hypothesis. https://hackaday.com/2018/01/10/spectre-and-meltdown-attackers-always-have-the-advantage/ https://hackaday.com/2018/01/10/spectre-and-meltdown-attacke...