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They knew since the 90s that people were doing this and expecting it to work, or did you miss that whole Java thing? Java became big as Intel was adding OoOE to their cores.

Hardware and software is codesigned, and yes the onus is on the chip manufacturers to release chips that let you continue to use them securely.



Why don't software developers have the responsibility to write software that uses the existing hardware protection mechanism?


Because chip manufacturers changed their hardware after the fact and kept their changes proprietary.




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