That they ended up emulating Genera instead of porting it should tell you something. Maybe. Also, look at the trouble people go through to do that: http://fare

That they ended up emulating Genera instead of porting it should tell you something. Maybe. Also, look at the trouble people go through to do that: http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html Then there's this that makes it look easy but also shows the keyboard problem LispM was probably referring to: http://www.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html http://www.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html What I find on getting them running without LISP hardware is somewhere between tough and "wow, I feel for that person." Maybe things have improved. There just seems to be a huge mismatch between many aspects of LISP machines and modern machines that means it's probably easier to do a clean-slate LISP machine that builds on modern primitives & interfaces better.