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From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Mark Flynn)
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Subject: Re: Re: of "images" and the like
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 12:31:17 EDT
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> 
> > ...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)

What a radical concept!  Can't imagine something primitive, like BASIC, having
a feature like that.



						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
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