jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes) (06/22/85)
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 ------- ARPA: jordan@ucb-vax.BERKELEY.EDU UUCP: jordan@ucbvax.UUCP
mff@wuphys.UUCP (Mark Flynn) (06/24/85)
> > > ...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 ihnp4!wuphys!mff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark." P. Floyd