[cap-talk] Undergraduate Research Thesis

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:03:25 -0400,
Kevin Reid wrote:
> > Another idea, I had, was looking into the feasibility of re- 
> > implementing parts of the Windows API or Posix API using an object- 
> > capability language like E.
> 
> One of the old capability OSes (I can't find a reference right now)  
> had such an emulation layer in order to be able to run POSIX
> programs.

I think you mean KeyKOS's KeyNIX:

  http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/NanoKernel/NanoKernel.html#RTFToC21

Neal