Jason Dufair <jase at dufair.org> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> I think it makes perfect sense.  It's a demo.  All we'd have to do is 
> make sure it boots.  Who cares what the OS (or of the bits, for that 
> matter) on the hard drive(s) of the machine is?  If we cover x86 and 
> PPC, that only leaves out freaks running things like Acorns (sorry, Tim 
> :-)).
Why require a bootable system in all cases? SqueakNews works pretty
well; for 'freaks' just make sure there is a vm  and let us handle it.
After all, I can run Squeak in a zip archive without problems, including
adding to the changelog and writing out changesets. Merely running from
a CD is no problem. Besides, Acorn don't do 'boot from this disc'
since it is a major security leak. Acorns boot from ROM with a
guaranteed clean copy of the os. :-)

tim

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