Core images in Lisp have been used since the early 60s. See for example the Lisp 1.5 manual. Appendix E describes the handling of images: http://www.softwarep

Core images in Lisp have been used since the early 60s. See for example the Lisp 1.5 manual. Appendix E describes the handling of images: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%... > Overlord is the monitor of the LISP System. It controls the handling of tapes, the reading and writing of entire core images, the historical memory of the system, and the taking of dumps.