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Abstract
The availability of new large-address-space computers has provided us an opportunity to examine techniques for transferring programming systems, and in particular, Lisp systems, to new computers. We contrast two approaches: designing and building a Virtual Machine implementation of Lisp, and (re)writing the system in a “portable” programming language ('C'). Our conclusion is that the latter approach may very well be better.