[cap-talk] Beneath Notice Authority was:Capabilities for immutable data

[Charles Landau]

On 2/26/11 11:23 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> That is the reason the Gnosis
> family (KeyKOS/EROS/CapROS/Coyotos) all allow allocation
> requests and their results to be entirely processed using the
> registers.

More precisely, using registers and read-only memory. The IA32/x86 
architecture has too few registers for even the simplest allocation 
messages.