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Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery

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I was able to discover and exploit this vulnerability, because earlier versions of the firmware used these registers for all DRAM operations, but then Sony stopped using them and started just accessing DRAM directly, because all DRAM was also mapped to the CPU address space.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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The computer, and the office, of the future Broadly speaking, the PARC researchers set out to explore possible technologies for use in what Xerox had tagged “the office of the future.” In December 1972, Lampson penned an internal memo, “ Why Alto?