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

[John Carlson]

On Aug 11, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Dean Tribble wrote:

> On 8/11/07, Mark Miller <erights at gmail.com> wrote:
> Suggestion: Would anyone like to start a capability history page at
> wikipedia, or at least <http://wiki.erights.org>? Then we'd have a
> place to accumulate refinements like the observations below.
>
> Wikipedia would be a much better place. I'll start one when I'm  
> back at my computer tomorrow if it's not already up.
>
> > I think that the FCP system (Flat Concurrent Prolog, by Udi  
> Shapiro and the
> > Weizmann Institute) was a capability-based system.
>
> As a programming language, FCP is indeed an ocap system. But the  
> Logix ...
> ...did realize and utilize the ocap nature of FCP. But I'm not sure. I
> don't remember the name of the company.
>
> Ubiq.
>
Was it Ubique?  I seem to remember some IM software written by  
Ubique...something like if you visited
the same website as someone else, you could see the other person's  
picture.
>

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