Squeak for WinCE/x86?

reic0024 at d.umn.edu reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Wed Aug 7 04:15:32 UTC 2002


Anyone ever thought about using WinCE on their PC as a means of running
Squeak?

it's not a pressing need for me at least, but if it's easy, could you
build a VM for WinCE for x86?  To those who wunderwarum: You can get
WinCE for x86 for *free* with the WinCE SDK from M$.  Boots on vanilla
PC hardware!  Could be a great base OS for those of you who just want
your OS to provide a filesystem, networking and the ability to run
Squeak. For video, it uses VESA, so almost any card made in the last 5
years can be used to it's full (but non-accelorated)
resolution/bit-depth potential.

Of course, the same end could be achieved with Linux or even SqueakNOS,
but it would be a lot more work to get to that point.  

I think I'd run it if I was on a PC and not a Mac- WinCE+Squeak has
everything I need, namely Squeak (in which I do most of what I do
entirely!) and an IE 4+ compatbile browser with 128-bit encryption/SS,,
JavaScript, and maybe even Java if you absolutely must have it for
banking.

I feel dirty 'advocating' for M$, just thought someone may think it's
useful...

Regards,
Aaron



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