Back when Intel introduced the 80286, they didn't quite document everything right away. Errata were needed. Then the 80386 changed things. And then someone convinced them to add just one more feature at the last minute, which didn't get documented properly again.
The History of a Security Hole takes a look at the problems introduced by the I/O Permission Bitmap (IOPB) in the 80286, and how fallout from the implementation caused a security hole in all versions of OpenBSD up to 6.3 and NetBSD up to 4.4.
Conclusion? This programming thing is hard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 07 2018, @03:34PM
Yo interesting fact.
I downloaded the delphi trial and the next day I was called by their sales guy. I explained that I was surprised how well delphi has aged but I only needed to recompile cheat engine and am not a corporation.
He gave me a free year long license.