The Form of the Squeak Release [LONGISH]
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at disney.com
Sat Jul 17 19:31:42 UTC 1999
Tim --
Sounds good!
Cheers,
Alan
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At 9:23 AM -0800 7/17/99, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>> [snip lots of points about small modular system, pluggability etc]
>
>I'm working on the VM pluggability. I can drastically reduce the amount of
>stuff in the 'vanilla' VM and have almost everything (except sockets at the
>moment) working as plugins. Aside from anything else it reduces the load of
>a port, since you don't have to worry about serial ports, midi, sound,
>sockets etc until the basics work adequately. It also adds a nice
>discipline in the design of the VM extensions.
>Combined with the ImageSegments to load the image code that uses the
>plugins, I suspect we can do rather a lot.
>
>tim
>
>
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