Abstract
This paper appeared in nearly this form in the Oct. 1988 issueof Operating Systems Review, pp 36:38Bold face stuff should be changed for greater correspondenceto Unix.This is a nearly true story (unessential details have beenchanged). The events happened about 1977 at Tymshare, acompany which provided commercial timesharing services. Beforethis happened I had heard of capabilities and thought thatthey were neat and tidy, but was not yet convinced that theywere necessary. This occasion...

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