[COFF] [TUHS] man-page style
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Tue Nov 20 03:53:31 AEST 2018
> From: Grant Taylor
> Thank you for the reply
Sure; I love to yap about stuff like this.
> I occasionally bump into some Multicians and am always pleasantly
> surprised at how different their world is.
Yes, it's very unlike most of what's been done since. Some of it (e.g. a
strictly ordered set of rings for protection) was wrong, but there's a lot of
good stuff there yet to be mined.
>> Which is a pity, because when done correctly (which it was - Intel
>> hired Paul Karger to architect it)
Ooops, it was Roger Schell, I get them mixed up all the time. His oral
history, here:
https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/133439
is a Must Read.
>> it's just what you > need for a truly secure system (which Multics also
>> had) - but that's another long message.
> If you're ever feeling bored and would like to share that story.
OK, soon.
> From: Bakul Shah
> All of this would be easily possible on the Mill arch. if ever it gets
> built. Mill has segments and protected function calls.
What I found about that mostly talked about the belt stuff. Do you happen to
have a pointer to the segment/call stuff?
> set-uid has its own issues. Plan9 doesn't have it.
Ah, what were the issues (if you happen to know)?
Noel
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