[cap-talk] Capability begginer questions

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:26 +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
> Capability based systems are not in wide use, are more
> imagined than real.  Thus terminology cannot be
> definitive yet.

Mr. Donald:

As we have discussed previously, you have a tendency to make statements
that disregard fact. This is one of them. Capability systems have been
in wide commercial use since well before you were born. As examples, I
would cite MERT and DMERT, the Sigma-7, and the IBM System/38.

> ...a technology that is as
> yet largely nonexistent, and whose past implementations
> have failed.

Can you provide numbers supporting this assertion? S/38 revenues, as a
counterexample, are measured in billions of dollars. The systems based
on MERT, DMERT, and their successors are similarly denominated.

-- 
Jonathan S. Shapiro
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC
www.coyotos.org, www.eros-os.org