Re:Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would be reb...
by cwp on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @07:52PM
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That's a bit of an understatement. Basically all Squeak and VisualWorks images have been running since some time in the late '70s. They've been migrated from 16- to 32- to 64-bits and across chip architectures, but it's the same image. Other dialects were bootstrapped more recently, and some of them have retained the ability to create an image from scratch.
I guess bootstrapping is more common in the Lisp world.
I guess bootstrapping is more common in the Lisp world.