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Similar, [[Lisp Machine]]s were booted from Lisp images, called Worlds. The World contains the complete operating system, its applications and its data in a single file. It was also possible to save incremental Worlds, that contain only the changes from some base World. Before saving the World, the Lisp Machine operating system could optimize the contents of memory (better memory layout, compacting data structures, sorting data, ...).
 
Although its purpose is differentfoda, a "system image" is often similar in structure to a [[core dump]].
 
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