On 24-Feb-07, at 10:43 AM, Steve Burbeck wrote:

> So, anyone who wishes to reimplement the interpreter is home free.   
> I would guess that it wouldn't be a huge task to repurpose the  
> Squeak interpreter to run Methods.
Well don't forget that most of the compiler was in the v m as well;  
that would add quite a lot of effort.

To the best of my knowledge I had the first copy of Methods in  
Europe. I was an IBM Research fellow at the time, working on UI stuff  
for 3D  CAD systems. It's rather disconcerting to think that on a 4- 
ish MHz 8086 with less than 1MB of ram, it was possible to run a  
tolerable Smalltalk with a snappy UI. Now I have a 4Ghz (split across  
2 cpus) and 2GB ram and the UI is just barely tolerable.

tim
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