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

Craig Latta craig at netjam.org
Tue Dec 24 21:16:35 UTC 2013


Hi Doug--

> I like the idea of getting Spoon running on lots of different kinds of
> machines.  But given the number of people willing to work on Spoon so
> far, it seems unproductive to target a bunch of platforms all at once.
> Targeting a minimal hardware platform is a good way of keeping work
> focused on Craig's original goals for Spoon.  The fact that it has no
> video out is a positive boon.

     :)

> Seems to me this kind of hardware occupies a Spoon sweet spot.  It's
> not so small that the port would be really hard;  it's just big
> enough to do everything a minimal Spoon machine needs to do, while
> still being accessible to people who don't have a lot of money to
> spend on it. Hobbyists can even build their own without needing to
> call a PCB board maker.

     I want to reiterate that I'd love to collaborate on getting Spoon
running on all these little platforms. We could use the method-marking
stuff on the virtual machine simulator to identify the minimal set of
primitives/instructions/plugins/etc. I think I've only been using
LargeIntegers, MiscPrimitives, and Flow.


-C

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