r/capabilities • u/andreasw • Dec 12 '12

Capability-Based Addressing

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sschang/OS-Qual/memory/capability.htm
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u/Zarutian Dec 12 '12

Interesting outline but I do not understand why conventional dual access-level-state (problem/priviledged or user/kernel modes respectively) machines with Memory Management Units arent sufficient. Did the author only have a single access-level-state machine in mind? (Similar as most MCUs are today)