[cap-talk] Capability begginer questions

[James A. Donald]

 > 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.

Which, to a greater or lesser extent, failed.  The
prototypes and experiments now deployed have
substantially different properties and characteristics
to those now forgotten systems.

The systems you describe were created without anyone
thinking much about about user interface.  Modern
capability systems will only be useful as an integral
part of the user interface.  User interface terminology,
and rules governing user interface, follow widespread
usage, rather than precede it.