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kragen 5 days ago

Smalltalk predates Lisp machines and didn't originally compile to native code at all. I don't remember if Limbo did. Oberon isn't image-based (you can't save and restore the memory state of the running system) and didn't originally define a machine-independent bytecode format, and the one it had for many years has been removed from the current version. Wasm usually isn't image-based either; though it has a clear pathway for doing so, for example Wasmtime still doesn't implement that functionality: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/3017

miki123211 5 days ago | parent [-]

AS400 isn't image based either.

And unlike AS400, I don't think either Smalltalk or Lisp machines used the bytecode abstraction to achieve security.

kragen 5 days ago | parent [-]

Agreed.