Squeak for OS/2

Carl Gundel carlg at world.std.com
Fri Feb 20 03:14:02 UTC 1998


Hi Boris!

Do you know where I can get a version of Squeak for OS/2?  I've been to
your site but can't seem to find an OS/2 VM there.  Am I missing
something?

Thanks,

Carl

On 11 November 97, Boris <boris at dialogue.msu.su>, wrote:
>> ich recently saw your patch for running Squeak under OS/2. Are you still
>> working on this project ?

> MOST SURELY.  THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING I SAW IN THE LAST
> FEW YEARS.

>> Is there a version that runs with PMX ?

> No.  If you want to run Squeak in the PM session, you can do a more
> radical thing: replace the SqXWindow.c with code aware of PM.  Another
> (doubtful) approach: get SqWin32Window.c and port it using Open32.
> There are many drawbacks to this, however: put alone ideology stuff
> (we are OS/2 folks, so why use Open32?), how will Open32 compile
> together with Squeak?  What compiler?  Gcc? then how will Open32 feel?
> IBM C? how will Squeak feel?..  too many questions, I think...

> The thing I try to achieve is different.  I want to not only
> port Squeak to OS/2, but rewrite it as a pure PM application,
> 100% PM aware (maybe even VT-enabled?)  To look something like
> ST/V, ***BUT THE QUESTION IS HOW TO MAKE POSSIBLY LESS CHANGES***.
> Look at it as a mathematical extremum problem (find minimum
> changes).  Please see my note to Michael Cole for description
> of the project status.

>> Is there a 
>> patch for Squeak 1.20?

> I'm working to package everything to an easily maintainable
> set of changes for v.1.23.  Watch for it soon.




Regards,

Carl





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