[cap-talk] Commercial capability systems?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 14:00 -0800, Charles Landau wrote:
> As mentioned on this list, PalmOS 6 is capability-based, but it may
> not qualify because the capability features aren't documented or
> supported for the general software developer.

The original AS/400 hardware is also a capability-based system -- or
more precisely, the logical system implemented by the AS/400 horizontal
microcode was. OS/400 (the operating system) makes more use of
descriptors than, say, UNIX, but its permission system is an ACL system.

shap