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Parting words

There are two firm beliefs that I have acquired from this project:
i)
The concepts of designing the system as an abstractly defined machine together with capability based protection were extremely useful and I strongly advocate their future use;
ii)
The concepts of distributed system code and mapped address spaces introduced many complications unnecessary for the provision of an adequate time sharing system, and I would recommend at most limited use of these ideas in future systems.


Paul McJones
1998-06-22