Motorola M88K books & user manuals (looking for)

[Carlo Pisani]

> The x86/x64 instruction set complexity hasn't been helpful in reducing the
> security vulnerability of software running on those architectures, either.
> The multiple parallel pipelines that make possible speculative execution of
> a number of branches before associated decisions are computed, have
> resulted in the whole new class of security vulnerabilities such as
> Meltdown, Foreshadow, and Spectre.  This isn't limited to x86/x64, however,
> as the most recent multicore ARM processors have also fallen victim to such
> issues, they've just been late to the game as the most advanced (and
> complex) features have been pursued (somewhat for me-too marketing
> purposes), so fewer families/generations have been affected.

yes, it's a problem even for the IBM POWER9 (~PPC64/LE) partially
funded by DARPA

here (1) Elisabeth reported a post that summarizes what is wrong with Spectre

(1) http://www.downthebunker.xyz/wonderland/reloaded/bazaar/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=189&sid=ae795d270e4805375cea3d9832eecc27