Ah well, back in the day, prior JMM, there was no notion of memory models at all, and no language had one; Hence, I referenced the original paper that started

Ah well, back in the day, prior JMM, there was no notion of memory models at all, and no language had one; Hence, I referenced the original paper that started it all. The point was that it happened long time ago, and there is nothing new about the current case.