Make LispM code FREE (fwd)

[P. T. Withington]

On 4/2/98 15:21, David Gadbois wrote:

>Don't forget, the Symbolics guys were constrained to write an emulator
>for the Ivory instruction set, and so they had to represent the 40-bit
>words explicitly.  Without that constraint, the argument for 64-bit
>processors is not so strong.

Exactly right.  Binary compatibility was an absolute requirement (because 
the idea of building a new compiler had already been discarded as too 
costly, and most of the compiler expertise had been laid off).  If LispOS 
are talking about creating a new VM and compiler for that VM, the design 
space is wide open.