Genera was using more than 32 bits in each word so the Alpha was the only available target at the time for a software emulation of the system. It would have be

Genera was using more than 32 bits in each word so the Alpha was the only available target at the time for a software emulation of the system. It would have been easier to create a port of the LMI or TI systems to a workstation or 386 PC, they only ever used a 32 bit word. TI would have been the obvious candidate as they were building 68020 systems that used the same case as the Explorer. Add a simple external MMU to the 68020 and a native compiler and it would be reasonably fast. I guess that LMI didn't have enough staff to look at something like this back then. There is a new Lambda emulator if anyone wants to play with it [1]. Xerox did port their software to workstations and I believe it is still sold by Venue. [1] https://github.com/dseagrav/ld https://github.com/dseagrav/ld