Tim --

Amen and congrats from me as well!!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 3:15 PM -0000 5/21/99, John.Maloney at disney.com wrote:
>Tim,
>
>This is terrific! I know how painful this can be. I had to
>really struggle to get it working on the Mac. There, the
>situation was especially annoying because the 68K didn't
>originally support dynamic linking. It was added to the 68K
>as an afterthought, but there are all sorts of complications
>such as not being able to build a "fat" (68K and PPC)
>DLL. Since the VM it itself a DLL, that means we can
>no longer have a single "fat" Squeak VM. And, of course,
>it is hard to discover what you need to know by reading
>the documentation...
>
>Anyhow, I'm glad you drove through your RiscOS difficulties
>and got it working. Congratulations!
>
>	-- John
>
>>I'm sure it will make most of you yawn, but I have to shout it somewhere -
>>_finally_, I can do dynamically loadable VM plugins on RiscOS. I still have
>>to try to unify 'internal' plugins into the mechanism, but it actually
>>loads the GSM codec plugin, sets up the interpreter and finds/execute the
>>new state prim.
>>Why has it taken so long? Well, RiscOS just doesn't normally work that way
>>- the OS equivalent of plugins/dlls uses runtime binding via names, not
>>function addresses or anything like that. Many thanks to Ben Summers who
>>managed to work out the mechanism to allow this.
>>
>>You can go back to sleep now...
>>
>>--
>>Fractured Idiom:- FELIX NAVIDAD - Our cat has a boat
>>Tim Rowledge:  rowledge at interval.com (w)  +1 (650) 842-6110 (w)
>> tim at sumeru.stanford.edu (h)  <http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim>