Z-machine
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The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine in
An implementation of Frotz running on an iPhone, playing the MIT version of Zork.
Lisp (programming language)
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Lisp is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in the late 1950s, it is the second-oldest high-level program
Z-machine
…the equivalent of .z1 through .z6; .z7 and .z8 were proposed and adopted after Infocom had shut down. The MDL programming language was derived from Lisp at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the Dynamic Modeling group of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) in the 1970s; inspired by…
A Lisp machine in the MIT Museum
John Mc Carthy Stanford
Steve Russell