Aegis

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Aegis is a distributed, capability-based operating system developed at MIT in the 1980s, known for its fine-grained security model and use in the Apollo/Domain workstation environment.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf capability-based operating system
distributed operating system
operating system
architecture microkernel-like
computingModel distributed computing
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
designedBy researchers at MIT
designedFor Apollo/Domain workstations
developer Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
surface form: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
executionEnvironment networked Apollo workstations
feature capability-based interprocess communication
distributed file system support
fine-grained protection domains
network transparency for resources
object-based resource management
support for distributed applications
support for multiple users
goal to explore secure distributed operating system design
to provide fine-grained protection for objects in a distributed environment
historicalPeriod 1980s workstation era
inception 1980s
influenced Domain/OS
notableFor early use of capability-based protection in a commercial workstation environment
fine-grained security model
operatingSystemFamily Domain/OS lineage
platform Apollo/Domain hardware
relatedTo capability-based security research
distributed systems research at MIT
securityFeature fine-grained access control
object-capability model
securityModel capability-based security
supports distributed name services
process isolation
remote resource access
usedIn Apollo/Domain workstation environment

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