[squeak-dev] re: would it be fun to implement Squeak (and SPOON!) on this hardware?

Craig Latta craig at netjam.org
Sat Dec 21 22:24:39 UTC 2013


Hi Jon--

> I just bought a Teensy 3.1 from pjrc.com <http://pjrc.com>. Its got an
> ARM overclocked at 96 MHz, with 256 KB of FLASH, and 64 KB of RAM,
> plus a huge pile of hardware features built in. It was $20, and looks
> like one of those old basic stamps. Right now I'm programming it with
> the Arduino IDE, but its another platform that would be cool to run
> something like Little Smalltalk or Spoon on.

     A 32-bit processor, nice! The next hurdle is getting the VM down to
below 256 KB. To date there hasn't been an effort to make the VM small,
as far as I know. Currently the VM is at least a megabyte on every
platform, yeah?


     thanks,

-C

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