[cap-talk] Interesting Presentation: Architectural Choices for Security

[Ivan Krstić]

On Nov 10, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Mark Miller wrote:
> A nit: I'm uncertain about how much credit to give the B5000. [...]
> But I don't think it actually had any appreciable security properties.

Not directly, no, but it's certainly my understanding that the B5000  
program reference tables and the address space isolation they  
provided were a strong influence on early thoughts given to  
capability systems. I list the machine in my slide for completeness,  
since I thus regard it as an important evolutionary step on the path  
to capabilities. Cheers,

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