Why the Raspberry Pi’s immune to the Meltdown and Spectre bugs

Alumni, Department of Computer Science, News Media

As an experiment, engineer and NUS School of Computing graduate Yeo Kheng Meng managed to get a modern Linux distribution running on a 25-year-old IBM PC from 1993 - an x86 machine that isn't vulnerable to Meltdown or Spectre CPU flaws, due to the fact that it doesn't support out-of-order processing.

ITPro, 8 January 2018

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