Putting squeak in business.

Alan Grimes alangrimes at starpower.net
Mon Nov 17 04:47:24 UTC 2003


Andreas Raab wrote:
> > 1. make a bootable, self-building (no more C) VM for a reasonably
> > well-designed machine (that is not a PC). including a filesystem and
> > interrupt driven IO.

> Don't. Unless you have some constraints you haven't told us, use a 
> minimal Linux-Kernel and have Squeak sit on top of it.

<retch>

> It's small, works well, and has been done before (see Dan's wheather 
> station). Even if your hardware is out of the ordinary you still got a 
> chance of the hardware people having (or being willing to produce) 
> functional Linux drivers. Total cost: Very Few Bucks (tm).

Well, naturally, I would require that the linux system also be able to
build itself (I'm not going into the appliance business...) That
requires approximately 200mb of compressed source and 400mb of compiled
binaries. 

If I use anything, it will be a port of Plan 9 or perhaps QNX... Just
about anything with a simple and coherant design... 

-- 
Windows 3.11: Almost exactly 10 years old,
     and -400% slower than windows XP. ;) 

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