<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">In Intel’s defence, the article cited below is neither the least biased, nor an entirely un-sensationalized (to coin an Americanism) account. And the articles highlighted at the bottom of the page are even worse. That an industrially-accepted architecture turns out to have an unforeseen vulnerability does not mean that Intel is being two-faced about the need to try to fix the problem.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the other hand, my mid-eighties BBC Microcomputer suffers from none of these problems, and boots up in two seconds.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Phil M1GWZ</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 8 Jan 2018, at 03:30, Richard Demaret <<a href="mailto:ric.demaret@gmail.com" class="">ric.demaret@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">.<br class=""></div>Greetings,<br class=""><br class=""></div>Here is an update on the Intel chip problems.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/05/spectre_flaws_explained/" class="">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/05/spectre_flaws_explained/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div>Best Wishes<br class=""></div>Richard KI4KXJ<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>