Plessey System 250
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The Plessey System 250 was the first operational computer system to implement capability-based addressing, and the first sold commercially. It was designed as a real-time controller for computerized telephone switching systems. It had a multiprocessing architecture.[1]
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Manufactured by Plessey company plc[2] in the United Kingdom in 1970, it was successfully deployed by the Ministry of Defence for the British Army Ptarmigan project[3] and served in the first Gulf War as a tactical mobile communication network switch.
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- ^ Henry M. Levy, The Plessey System 250, chapter 4 of Capability-Based Computer Systems, by University of Washington, USA
- ^ Copyright © 2006 - 2007 BAE Systems. All rights reserved retrieved 8.10.11
- ^ Ptarmigan project, British Army, Ministry of Defence, UK.
