[cap-talk] What sparked interest in capabilities

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 14/02/2008, at 10.14, Bill Frantz wrote:

>Jed points out that work on capabilities came to a near standstill
>during the capability nadir of the late 1980s and early 1990s.  For
>people who have become interested in capabilities since then, what
>caused you to develop that interest?

I learnt of capabilities from the EROS site, in 1999. I became interested
in EROS at first for the system-wide persistence and real-time design of
the system. At the time I was dealing with application checkpoint issues.
Application-level checkpoint wasn't satisfactory, and I started learning
EROS, and caps along the way.

val