Lisp Machine VM

I’ve been wondering why no-one has put together a proper Lisp Machine VM. By that I mean a VM that runs in something like VMware Player. It would allow anyone who needs one to simply launch a Lisp Machine.

I do realize the original Lisp Machines, like the Symbolics 3600 I coded on decades ago, have a special architecture and can’t easily be ported. But I was hoping that someone out there would have taken one of the many Common Lisp implementations and put all the pieces needed for an excellent Lisp environment and wrapped it in a VM that any of us could simply run by double-clicking on it.

There are appliances for all kinds of things, but none for a Lisp Machine.

Sigh.