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Yeah, I learned an enormous amount from it when I encountered it (in hard copy of course) in 01996, and some of what I learned is now no longer relevant. There are some people building new Lisp machines: https://opencores.org/projects/igor https://github.com/lisper/cpus-caddr https://interlisp.org/ http://pt.withington.org/publications/LispM.html http://pt.withington.org/publications/VLM.html https://github.com/dseagrav/ld http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/ https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/36_qKNErHAg https://frank-buss.de/lispcpu/ Also, Morello includes some Lisp-machine-like features. In my view knowing about the history of hardware architectures is far more important for designing new ones than for reproducing old ones.

LMI here https://github.com/dseagrav/ld

There is also an emulator for the LMI Lisp Machine [1]. [1] https://github.com/dseagrav/ld

Not this process but a relative, might be of interest: https://github.com/dseagrav/ld

As well as the ones lispm has described there are emulators for MIT CADR, LMI and TI Lisp Machines. The LMI one [1] is the most complete of these. [1] https://github.com/dseagrav/ld

There is an emulator to run this [1]. [1] https://github.com/dseagrav/ld

An LMI Lambda (shipped 1st gen machine that was an evolved MIT CADR) emulator is at: https://github.com/dseagrav/ld

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