Capability Protocol Taxonomy (was: Split Capabilities: ...)

[Mark S. Miller]

At 04:10 PM 7/24/00 , Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>Unibus is a bound variable. It was the name of the bus on the midrange VAX
>machines, and it's a trademarked term.
>
>Sorry to pop the balloon...

The Unibus page http://www.erights.org/elib/object-pluribus/unibus.html says:

"Because it is a single key variant of Pluribus, and in fond memory of the 
PDP-11, we name this protocol Unibus."

I suppose I should amend this to include the VAX.


         Cheers,
         --MarkM