[cap-talk] Capability begginer questions

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 06:58 +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
> > 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....

Mr. Donald:

1. It is extremely hard to understand how multi-billion dollar successes
can be considered failures.

2. The user interfaces on these systems are certainly not desktop user
interfaces, but they were *very* carefully considered, with full
awareness that once deployed they would be effectively unalterable for
25 years.

Facts, Mr. Donald. Not allegations.
-- 
Jonathan S. Shapiro
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC
www.coyotos.org, www.eros-os.org