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Oracle's Larry Ellison claims his Sparc M7 chip is hacker-proof – Errr...

Neil Barnes Silver badge

I'm having a vague flashback here...

Didn't early 68000 Macs have an issue with people storing metadata in the top bits of memory pointers - casing much brokenness when larger memory models came along?

Yes, I know a 64 bit address is a *big* chunk of memory, but sooner or later...

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