Robot VM options

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Tue Dec 18 00:28:11 UTC 2007


On 17-Dec-07, at 4:13 PM, Robert F. Scheer wrote:

> I've tossed the idea of Squeak out to the Portland Area Robotics  
> Society
> group list and the response is building up (although a bit sluggish).
>
> One question that immediately arose was whether Squeak is limited to  
> the
> "Big 3" OS's

No - it's been ported to many systems. I've supported the RISC OS port  
for ten years as well as having done several other minimal/no OS ports.

> or is there a VM for other embedded processors maybe
> without OS's.
>
> The Swiki says Squeak VM's are supported for Mac, MS, RISC and flavors
> of UNIX.
That would be RISC OS, as in Acorn, as in the original inventors of  
the ARM cpu.

>
>
> I remember reading somewhere that a student implemented a VM on a  
> native
> uP as a Summer project.
>
> Has there been much VM development on embedded uP's.
Mitsubishi M32R/D
Interval Research 'MediaPad'
MITS
most other small machines seem to have a cut down linux put on them.


tim
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