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Re:The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spec... by blattimwind on Saturday February 09, 2019 @04:08PM (#19124643)
> The basics of the spectre exploit were discoverable 20 years ago and run deep, to the very core of branch speculation.

Some aspects of these were known 20 years ago.

http://www.cse.psu.edu/~trj1/cse543-f06/papers/vax_vmm.pdf section VI.E)

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