From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-26 18:49:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: simple CPUs, was Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. References: <9lr3tt$4gr$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:49:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 998876952 24.7.82.199 (Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:49:12 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:49:12 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12440 Date: 2001-08-27T01:49:12+00:00 List-Id: >If Intel did offer some version of their 80x86 family in a deep-space, >... >One of the beauties of the 1750a was the indivisible nature >of the instructions, their simplicity and predictability. For hard-realtime I wonder how much performance loss there would be if you eliminated all the fancy pipelining etc etc from a Pentium IV, in order to simplify timing estimates? As much as 1/2? Continue to run at 1GHz, of course.