Is Squeak ready for BeOS for Intel (and PPC)
Serg Koren
skoren at pop5.ibm.net
Wed Mar 25 04:16:41 UTC 1998
Hi,
No not quite. I've been tied up with work (real job), and haven't had a
lot of time to spend lately.
Currently, I've run into another memory-related issue that pretty much
forces me to go thru the logic
of the VM initialization to understand what is failing (instead of doing a
brute-force port ;-) ). This is good and bad; good in that I'll have to
learn the Squeak internals, bad in that it'll take a lot longer than
expected.)
Also BeOS for Intel isn't quite ready for prime-time (it's still a
development release "for technogeeks only"). (Yes I do have it and am a Be
developer.) It has no serial or floppy or Windows interfacing (just
Ethernet or external modem). So I have no way to move the code and have it
compile under BeOS/Intel from the PPC platform--not having Ethernet or an
external modem. But it *IS* a straight recompile! One definite advantage
of BeOS.
It would be nice to be able to get some help from the Squeak gurus on the
memory issues, but I think it would involve a fair amount of work on their
(and my parts) since I've rearchitected Squeak to be pretty much truly
object-oriented (with some of exceptions).
Basically, I'm workin on it but it's going to take a while :-( But when
it'll be done, it'll be cool.
S
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On Tuesday, March 24, 1998 10:51 PM, ocit.inc [SMTP:ocit.inc at MCI2000.com]
wrote:
> BeOs for Intel is now shipping.
>
> <http://www.be.com/products/beos/beosnow.html>
>
> I recall that at one point in time there were a couple of individuals who
> were working on the port. Is it available?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Charles
> OCIT
>
>
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