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"invented"? Unlikely. But he was shipping byte code VMs in products as far back as 1982 or so. (Before GNU Emacs existed.) See Gosmacs / Unipress emacs and

by gonzo 15y ago

"invented"? Unlikely. But he was shipping byte code VMs in products as far back as 1982 or so. (Before GNU Emacs existed.) See Gosmacs / Unipress emacs and 'mocklisp'.

Tloewald 15y ago
1982? So only 10 years after Smalltalk.