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From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.dcom,net.micro
Subject: Re: of "images" and the like
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Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 16:03:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 22 16:03:27 1985
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In article <604@umd5.UUCP> z en@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston) writes:

> ...I understand on the old TOPS-10 system a running program could write
> a copy of itself out to the file system, which could then later be
> executed and pick up where it had started.  THIS qualifies as an
> "image".

Franz LisP under 4BSD can do this (so you don't have to go setting
up all your atoms and functions again...) with something like

-> (dumplisp)

...

/jordan
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