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There is also an emulator for the LMI Lisp Machine [1].
Not this process but a relative, might be of interest: https://github.com/dseagrav/ld
As well as the ones lispm has described there are emulators for MIT CADR, LMI and TI Lisp Machines. The LMI one [1] is the most complete of these.
There is an emulator to run this [1].
An LMI Lambda (shipped 1st gen machine that was an evolved MIT CADR) emulator is at: https://github.com/dseagrav/ld
Genera was using more than 32 bits in each word so the Alpha was the only available target at the time for a software emulation of the system.
It would have been easier to create a port of the LMI or TI systems to a workstation or 386 PC, they only ever used a 32 bit word. TI would have been the obvious candidate as they were building 68020 systems that used the same case as the Explorer. Add a simple external MMU to the 68020 and a native compiler and it would be reasonably fast.
I guess that LMI didn't have enough staff to look at something like this back then. There is a new Lambda emulator if anyone wants to play with it [1].
Xerox did port their software to workstations and I believe it is still sold by Venue.