[plug] "Hyper-Threading, suffers from a serious security flaw,"

[Chris Watt]

I thought the Xeon was a RISC processor (like the macinbtosh PowerPC)
which would mean it wouldn't need HT.

Am I misinformed?



On 5/14/05, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/05, Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham.com.au> wrote:
> > Intel Xeons come with HT. I've seen those in a lot of servers :)
> Are you sure?
> I've never seen a Xeon with HT..
> I couldn't image anyone taking HT seriously for a server purpose...
> 
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