[cap-talk] Capability begginer questions

[Matheus Morais]

I share from your opinion too. There exists a lot of evidences proving
capabilities are real. KeyKOS, EROS, CapDesk, DarpaBrowser and others
already showed that capabilites could be used in practice and is not just a
theory.

Thanks,
Matheus Morais

On 10/3/07, Valerio Bellizzomi <devbox at selnet.org> wrote:
>
> On 03/10/2007, at 12.26, James A. Donald wrote:
>
> >Matheus Morais wrote:
> > > 1 - A short question about the terminology. The
> > > correct translation for capabilitie in portuguese is
> > > 'potencialidade' which means 'quality of the
> > > potential'. Books like Operating Systems Design and
> > > Implementation for example, treat capabilitie as
> > > 'capacidade' which stands for 'quality to satisfaction
> > > some end; qualification'. First I started to use
> > > 'potencialidade' because is the correct translation
> > > for the word capabilite, after read carefully a
> > > portuguese dictionary I decided to change that for
> > > 'capacidade' but I'm still lost about what is the best
> > > translation for the word capabilitie. Should I keep
> > > with 'capacidade' on documentation or change again to
> > > 'potencialidade'?
> >
> >Capability based systems are not in wide use, are more
> >imagined than real.  Thus terminology cannot be
> >definitive yet.
> >
> >Some of the opinions on this list are in inappropriately
> >confident in stating facts about a technology that is as
> >yet largely nonexistent, and whose past implementations
> >have failed.
>
> I find it silly to say that Capability based systems are more imagined or
> largely nonexistent.
> As long as ONE implementation exists, they are real.
>
> They are not widely used, but that is a side question.
>
>
> val
>
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