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		_19qg on June 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Li... > Common Lisp also is "image-based development", just like Smalltalk. This is a direct ST influence. Lisp from the early 60s used already images. It went from there to Smalltalk.

flavio81 on June 19, 2019 [–]

Oops...

I believe you, but, do you have some reference? I would assume this came after Lisp 1.5, right?

_19qg on June 19, 2019 | [–]

Lisp 1 in 1960.

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/rle_lisp/LISP_I_Programmers_Man...

Page 66f: SET card writes a memory image to a tape and TST card reads a memory image from tape.

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