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The FEP on 3600 was 68k - on Ivories FEP is normal Ivory program started from ROM.

The MacIvories and UX-series embeddable systems run FEP from their ROMs, but both FEP and OS on those use "Embedded" hardware model, where they use a memory-based buffer to provide "stream" used to communicate with "Life Support" software.

The VLM (Ivory rev5) systems, aka OpenGenera, don't have proper FEP (only a lisp debugger image) and in their case the LifeSupport application contains an embedded CPU implementation and implements loading of world files directly (thus bypassing the main purpose of FEP)



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