[cap-talk] Capability-based Projects - theory vs. practice

[Charles Landau]

At 10:17 AM -0400 8/3/07, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>Chorus, in its day, was a fine design. Looking back now, there are more
>things that I might criticize, but I remember being impressed with it
>then, and reading the Chorus docs in the context of their time I am
>still impressed.

I worked with Chorus a little in the early 1990's. My memory of 
details is now fuzzy, but what they called capabilities were in no 
way protected.

It's also worth noting that not everything they documented was implemented.