Re: How to develop a random number generation device

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:30:27 -0700, MooseFET <kensmith@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sep 14, 10:16 pm, TheKraken
<ReachUpandSuckYouDowntotheDep...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:51:23 -0700, John Larkin

<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, Windows is not a modern OS, and x86 is not a modern processor.
Given decent hardware tools, an OS should abort a process that tries
to execute data.

You're an idiot.

No, he is right. The Harvard architecture may be an exception because
"trying execute data" may be meaningless in that sort of processor.

Even a Von Neuman machine with memory management is in effect a
Harvard machine. There's no excuse for executing data or stack spaces.

John


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