[cap-talk] "Same" key

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 02:30 +0000, David Hopwood wrote:
> Mark S. Miller wrote:
> > Bill Frantz wrote:
> > 
> >>Are the following equivalencies substantially correct?
> >>
> >>What the OS view calls an "Object", the language view calls a
> >>"Composite".
> >>
> >>What the OS view calls a "Facet", the language view calls an "Object".
> >>
> >>The OS view does not use the term "Composite".
> >>
> >>The language view uses the term "Facet" to mean a reference to an object
> >>which is part of a composite.
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Where is this "OS view" terminology coming from? I don't recognize it from
> the documentation associated with any particular capability OS.

At the very least this is the terminology that Coyotos, EROS, and KeyKOS
have been using since the the late 1970's, though "facet id" used to be
called "data byte".

shap