I'm quite curious about this myself, both as a user and developer of  
Squeak on PDAs, but I'm also a fan and owner of a DS.

I've never used Squeak on a machine *that* slow, but I have used  
Squeak on a machine at least in the same league- the VTech Helio with  
its 75 MHz MIPS CPU.  No way you're going to run Morphic, both  
because of speed and memory availability on something so skimpy like  
the DS.  But MVC is incredibly fast- I've run it just fine under DOS  
and Linux on 33 MHz 486 machines, which is more powerful than the 33  
MHz ARM most likely in the DS, but still.

I think I can say (conjecture) that the simple CharRecog character  
recognizer that is apart of Squeak and works great in MVC would run  
fast enough as well.  Some work would need to be done on it to allow  
a person to train it, selecting the intended character using the D- 
pad and A button. A soft keyboard could be written as well, but  
outside my expertise (for MVC at least).

Looking forward to hearing more about this...

Regards,
Aaron

On Dec 18, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Jens Lincke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> how did you port squeak to the DS? Did you use the linux port or do  
> you use the DS directly?
>
> I like to try it out very much and I think there are other NDS fans  
> on this list too.
>
> - Jens -
>