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The most pleasant thing about this is how the lisp machine's instruction set turned out to be a good bytecode for interpretation. Calling it "microcode" seems r

The most pleasant thing about this is how the lisp machine's instruction set turned out to be a good bytecode for interpretation. Calling it "microcode" seems risible today, but I don't know if it was as ridiculous in 1993.

rjsw 8y ago
The "microcode" is the bytecode interpreter on the physical machines.
pjmlp 8y ago
Not at all, it was pretty common even during the 60 and 70's, e.g. Burroughs and Xerox PARC systems.