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Article #2607Re: Self-modifying code
From: Lee W Campbell
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1989 12:55
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1989 12:55
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>>There is no defense against the ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROS!
>
>We've been through this before. When micros want to supplant the high-end
>supers, they'll have to come up with answers to the age-old (well, ok,
>maybe 15 years old) problem of how to build a memory that will keep a fast
>CPU fed. Such a memory costs a Whole Lot Of Money. When you've sunk a lot
> ...
Reminds me of the old joke about the Cray 1, with about 4 megawords of
fast static ram: if you buy the memory, for $1 per word (not an unreasonable
price in those days), Cray would throw in the CPU for free!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!Athena.MIT.EDU!elwin From: elwin@Athena.MIT.EDU (Lee W Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Self-modifying code Message-ID: <15153@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 16 Oct 89 12:55:39 GMT References: <1078@m3.mfci.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: elwin@Athena.MIT.EDU (Lee W Campbell) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 15