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Interestingly, there was a 1998 paper about speculative execution that basically outlined all of Spectre/Meltdown.

• akga 7y ago
  Sounds interesting. Do you have a link to it?
  • Kurakuan 7y ago
    I'm not sure if there was another paper in '98, but this one in 1995 may be the one being referenced: https://web.archive.org/web/20180506083456/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2209/42809262c17b6631c0f6536c91aaf7756857.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20180506083456/https://pdfs.sema...
• cpach 7y ago
  And 'cperciva found some weird stuff long before Spectre. He reported to Intel and their reply was basically “meh”.
  • cperciva 7y ago
    Intel is a very different company in 2020 than they were in 2005.
    • cpach 7y ago
      Alright! What are the most significant changes they have made?
      • cperciva 7y ago
        They've gone from "try to get someone fired to get them to shut up" to "offer millions of dollars of bounties to researchers". It's a completely different attitude.
    • saagarjha 7y ago
      Are they better, or worse?