Recent content by knuthf

It is NOT in the firmware, it is in the timing diagrams. The Problem is that things like semaphores does not work - things are apparently not just 0 or 1 and if two processor read the same memory location they may get different result - because a third process modified the content while it was...

We made computers that used extensive memory cycles, accessed memory asynchronously and in interleaved cycles between the processor where thousands of CPU could hit the same memory at the same time. Just as the Meltdown issue. I fail to see how a piece of code can survive a reboot of a multicore...