http://mypals.info/tikiwiki-2.1/tiki-index.php?page=SqueakForAlpha

Here is a page with the two vms I've made (source code).

the 3.8 is a 64 bit that runs 64 bit images, the 3.10 is a 64 bit that
runs 32 bit images.


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David T. Lewis<lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:40:38AM +1200, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:16:02PM -0500, richard snow wrote:
>> > > I was able to use vmmaker to generate a 64 bit vm for the Alpha.
>> > > However it can't run 32 bit images, so I'm kind
>> > > of stuck. Where could I get an image (3.10-6 hopefully).
>> >
>>
>> I'm guessing that this would be a 64-bit image:
>>
>> http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/
>> Squeak64-3.8g-6548.image.tar.gz<http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/Squeak64-3.8g-6548.image.tar.gz>
>>
>> But it's (IIRC) unsupported and probably unstable. 32-bit images are better
>> supported and the garbage collector isn't really designed for images bigger
>> than 4GB.
>
> There's nothing unstable about that image, but unfortunately it does not run
> on today's VMs (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5239). Personally I use a
> descendent of that original 64-bit image (mainly for testing VMs) but as far
> as I know nobody is actively working on this.
>
> In any case, it's of acedemic interest in this case, because what Richard needs
> is a 64-bit VM to run normal 32-bit images.
>
> Dave
>
>
>



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