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Re:Symbolics Genera - The Best Software Environment Available by sedachv on Sunday November 07, 2010 @08:47PM (#1881060)
Saying that Genera was portable because Open Genera was there is like saying that MS DOS is portable because there's QEMU.
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Re:Symbolics Genera - The Best Software Environment Available by lispm on Monday November 08, 2010 @02:13AM (#1881716)
Or like any other language implementation with a language-oriented virtual machine: Java/JVM, CLISP, SQUEAK, ...
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Re:Symbolics Genera - The Best Software Environment Available by sedachv on Monday November 08, 2010 @01:06PM (#1883297)
But Open Genera isn't a language-oriented VM, it's an Ivory emulator. There's a huge difference.
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Re:Symbolics Genera - The Best Software Environment Available by lispm on Monday November 08, 2010 @02:05PM (#1883525)
The Ivory is a language oriented processor - not a computer. It's a CPU, a chip. Where is the difference? Open Genera also does not emulate an Ivory-based computer, but the processor mostly. It emulates the instruction set.

http://pt.withy.org/publications/VLM.html

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