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Network protocols are another matter, since they have to be understandable by a foreign machine of unknown architecture.

But as far as I recall (admittedly it's been many years), internal representations of time on Symbolics machines were all bignums.

Boxing/unboxing wasn't such an issue since the hardware had type tags and would handle a lot in microcode.

But, as I said, it's been 40+ years since I had to know this in any detail.