[geeks] The topic for the day..

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:02:46PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > For example, my OpenGenera screenshot shows its available memory in
> > terms of megawords:
> > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/2502891680_22d67e80b3_b.jpg
> Probably due to its Lisp Machine heritage; real Lisp Machines, AIUI,
> were word-addressed.  I don't know enough about OpenGenera to know
> whether it's a real virtual machine emulator the way the display
> implies; if so, it will of course act like the machine being emulated;
> if not, it's probably just easier to pretend.

OpenGenera was a port of the Lisp Machine hardware architecture to a
"Virtual Lisp Machine" on a 64-bit Alpha.  The screenshot you see there is
a port of that Alpha code to run on 64-bit linux.  So yeah, it's an
emulation of an emulation of a hardware Lisp Machine. 8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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