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>Open Genera did very little on top of Genera at that, mostly targeting and making it work on the Ivory.

Ivory support was implemented in Genera 7.3. Open Genera added the virtual machine to run on DEC Alpha hardware, it was Genera 8.3 + VLM, upgraded to Genera 8.5 with Open Genera 2.0.

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Additionally, VLM is otherwise "ivory rev. 5" which is not compatible at compiled code level with ivory rev. 0-4 which where the physical ivories. Small differences in few places including IIRC in page sizes.

and now it's a new portable VLM (DEC Alpha, x86-64, ARM64) with Genera 9.

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