{"id":4132,"date":"2014-11-30T23:25:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T04:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2014-11-30T23:26:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T04:26:34","slug":"z-machine-implemented-in-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/11\/z-machine-implemented-in-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Z-Machine Implemented in Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HuQZq6DQQDY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It happened to some extent with LISP, which certainly started out as a software programming language, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisp_machine\">LISP machines,<\/a> which supported the language with hardware features.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Z-Machine, which was probably the first commercial virtual machine, developed in 1979 by Joel Berez and Marc Blank for Infocom, has been implemented in hardware using an FPGA. The <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/charcole\/Z3\">Verilog code is available,<\/a> so you can make your own if you like.<\/p>\n<p>It all goes to show you &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctheory.net\/articles.aspx?id=74\">there is no software.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happened to some extent with LISP, which certainly started out as a software programming language, and the LISP machines, which supported the language with hardware features. Now, the Z-Machine, which was probably the first commercial virtual machine, developed in 1979 by Joel Berez and Marc Blank for Infocom, has been implemented in hardware using &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/11\/z-machine-implemented-in-hardware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Z-Machine Implemented in Hardware&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,15],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-if","tag-platforms","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}