[comp.os.misc] Looking for capability based systems

beal@cherokee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Alan Beal) (07/27/89)

I am writing a paper on operating systems with security based on 
capabilities.  I am aware of some the university based OS systems
that use capabilities(like Amoeba) but I would like to know which of
the commercially available systems have implemented capabilites.  Any
references to journal articles, reference manuals, or systems journals
would be appreciated.  Please respond by mail.  Thanks.

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 Alan Beal
 The Ohio State University
 Department of Computer and Information Science
 beal@cis.ohio-state.edu      {pyramid,attctc}!osu-cis!cis.ohio-state.edu!beal

webber@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) (07/27/89)

In article <56091@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, beal@cherokee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Alan Beal) writes:
> I am writing a paper on operating systems with security based on 
> capabilities.  I am aware of some the university based OS systems
> that use capabilities(like Amoeba) but I would like to know which of
> the commercially available systems have implemented capabilites. 

There is a book entitled:
     Capability-Based Computer Systems
     by Henry M. Levy, Digital Press, 1984, 220 pp.

It includes an 11 page bibliography.  The systems discussed include
the Burroughs B5000, The Rice University Computer, The Basic Language
Machine (International Computers Lmtd, United Kingdom), The MIT PDP-1
Timesharing System, The Chicago Magic Number Machine (University of Chicago),
The CAL-TSS (University of California at Berkeley), The Plessey System 250,
The Cambridge CAP Computer (Cambridge University), The Hydra System (CMU),
The StarOS (CMU), The IBM System/38, and the Intel iAPX 432.

For discussion of IBM's Sward system, they refer you to:
   Advances in Computer Architecture, 2nd Edition
   by G. J. Meyers, John Wiley & Sons, 1982

--- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)