<A HREF="http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/genera/genera.html">Genera</A> is the *(OS) that runs on Symbolics _(Lisp Machine)s; it also runs under hardware emulators for Mac, and under a software emulator on 64-bit Alpha machines.

To answer an obvious question, the emulator only runs on 64-bit processors because the tagged-memory architecture of Symbolics machines used 40-bit words with 36 of those bits for actual data. Emulating this on a common 32-bit machine is prohibitive to say the least.

The product is not actively developed anymore, but is still serviced, and it still does amazing things that have been lost since the times of _(Lisp machine)s. Being a _(Lisp)-based open system, it's an example of a _(no-kernel) system. It also has a tightly-integrated system of interface, first developed as Dynamic Windows which later developed into _(CLIM). The system is still used for Common Lisp and other language development in modern times simply for the development environment and intelligent interface systems.