Hi Jecel,

nice find, perhaps they learned the eToys name from the OLPC project ;-)

Question to the VM guru: are there any opcodes in the instruction set of  
ARM9 which allow a *fast* VM? A *small* VM is addressed by the thumb  
thing, IIRC. But what about speed. And what VM technology, (direct)  
threaded bytecode, or what does ARM9 support best.

Thank you for your time.

/Klaus

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:58:57 +0100, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:

> I found the subheading for the following press release funny in the
> context of Squeak:
>
> http://www.lsi.com/news/product_news/2006_11_13.html
>
> "ZEVIO 1020 processor provides best-in-class cost, power and performance
> for the expanding digital consumer appliance market, including eToys and
> portable navigation devices"
>
> Though a 150MHz ARM9 would make for a rather slow Squeak machine (even
> with all the neat graphics coprocessors it includes), at $8 (large
> volumes) we can forgive this :-)
>
> -- Jecel
>
>