Bakul Shah <bakul(a)bitblocks.com> wrote: That article mentions Frank King and Barry Landy who are still around in Cambridge. A correction: Titan was not a Unix system :-) It was a variant of the Ferranti Atlas, with its own timesharing operating system. But it has some second-hand Unix connections: it was the first system to have hashed passwords, which Unix later adopted. Stephen Bourne used Titan when developing Algol 68C. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot(a)dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: West backing southwest later, 5 to 7. Moderate or rough. Occasional rain. Good, occasionally moderate.

On Jan 30, 2020, at 12:25 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote: Capabilities[1] (Dennis, Van Horn, 1966) would have solved the MOO problem. And the CAP computer project had already started in Cambridge! [1] https://www.princeton.edu/~rblee/ELE572Papers/Fall04Readings/ProgramSemanti… Re-reading this papers decades later it is interesting to see that the modern object caps are basically not very different from the original concept! Also interesting to see fork() here.