Because on the pilot, even when there is 2, 4 or even 32 MB of RAM, you
can't get at it in continuous blocks.  I think only in 32K blocks.  (IIRC)
You *could* do a full-scale Smalltalk on a Palm, but you'd be doing a lot
more than a port of Squeak, you'd have to write a new VM to account for
the way PalmOS works.

Regards,
Aaron

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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
> > Just curious:
> > How much RAM did that system have and roughly how many classes did the
> > image have you were working with?
> Almost none and very few. The Magnolia was a predecessor of the
> commercial 4404 which had a massive 1Mb of ram. And a stunningly fast
> 8MHz 68000 cpu.
>
> So, why was it that we couldn't do a fullscale Smalltalk for a palm
> pilot? Errrrr.....
>
> tim
>
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