Infocom launched in an era of competing hardware running competing operating systems from ibm compatibles to the apple to the atari 800 and commodore s amiga and c64 , when portability was a significant differentiator ; this inspired infocom to run on top of a virtual machine - the z - machine , which was named for zork Infocom經(jīng)歷了相互競爭的硬件運行相互競爭的操作系統(tǒng)的時代(從ibm兼容機到apple ] [再到atari 800和commodore的amiga以及c64 ) ,那時可移植性還有很大差別;這啟發(fā)infocom在一個虛擬機之上去運行它即z - machine ,是為zork命名的。