Squeak on an iPAQ

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Thu Sep 21 16:34:02 UTC 2000


Craig Latta wrote this a few days back

Hi--

        The Unix Squeak virtual machine and compiled external plugins for
GNU/Linux (2.8.3, x86), OpenBSD (2.9a, x86), and NetWinder (2.9a) are
available from http://netjam.org/smalltalk. They will run headless, and
debugging is enabled. Note that the NetWinder is StrongARM-based; it
might make a suitable cross-compiler for the Compaq iPAQ H3600 Pocket PC
(as soon as I can get one I'll know :).


        enjoy,

-C

--
Craig Latta
composer and computer scientist
craig.latta at netjam.org
www.netjam.org
crl at watson.ibm.com
Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]



Mike Shields wrote:
> 
> Right, it's a handheld. It runs WinCE 3.0, and the OS is in Flash ROM. It
> has 16mb of Flash ROM, and 32mb of SDRAM. Linux has been ported to it, and I
> think I remember that squeak runs on Linux/ARM, so that might be easy.
> However, I'm kinda shy about flashing my rom and maybe rendering my new toy
> useless.
> 
> I thought squeak had already been ported to versions of CE, figured it might
> just be a minimal effort port to get it working on the iPAQ.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dwight Hughes [mailto:dwighth at ipa.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:54 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Squeak on an iPAQ
> 
> I assume he means the iPAQ H3650 -
> http://www6.compaq.com/products/handhelds/pocketpc/H3650.html - which is
> a handheld with a 206MHz StrongARM CPU and a color screen - it comes
> with Windows PocketPC (a version of CE). BTW, I think the Compaq Aero
> 1550 has its PocketPC OS in a removeable rom - if the H3650 does too,
> well, that could be quite interesting.
> 
> -- Dwight
> 
> JArchibald at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > => 9/21/00 11:11:30 AM EDT, Mike_Shields at gscmobilesolutions.com =>
> > << I just recently bought an iPAQ, and I would kill to be able to run
> squeak
> > (or any smalltalk) on it. I'm a smalltalk developer, and it looks like it
> > wouldn't be too hard to port squeak to the iPAQ. Thoughts? >>
> >
> > The iPAQ is a Windows machine, is it not? (Latest versions I've seen for
> sale
> > have Win'2000 installed.) Unless you're loading some other operating
> system
> > on it, simply downloading the appropriate version of Squeak from archive,
> > unpacking it, and starting it is all you need to do. Archive is at
> > ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/
> >
> > Or am I missing something here?
> >
> > You can also download non-commercial version of VisualWorks 5i (which is a
> > complete version of VW, with all the extras, manuals, etc) and run it too.
> > Most of the other Smalltalks have free or trial versions also which run
> under
> > Windows operating systems.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jerry.
> > ____________________________
> >
> > Jerry L. Archibald
> > systemObjectivesIncorporated
> > ____________________________





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