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From: carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
Subject: Re: NEXT Smalltalk
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Alan Lovejoy (alovejoy@concentric.net) wrote: 
> on a microcoded processor
> that executed "bytecodes" in hardware.  So there was no "virtual machine." 
> The Xerox "virtual machine" was essentially a software emulator for this
> original processor.  That's why it was called a "virtual machine." 

Are you sure?  Everything I've ever read at least implied that the 
software VM came first, and that optimized hardware like the Dorado came 
later.  Can you point me to some article that says the hardware came first?

Thanks,

Carl
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