By Michael Kanellos
Published: Friday 09 January 2004
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this sounds like adding proper memory protection so areas of memory can be declared non-executable or read only. If so PDP-11 processors could do this a long time ago (seperate I and D space)! VAX processors supported this. Alpha processors supported this. Itanium I don't know
The operating system memory protection scheme or lack of it is also important.
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