Quoting tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:

>
> On 01-05-2013, at 11:58 AM, "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And the wide bodied Alto had 512kB of memory = 1/2 MB, right?
>>
>> RaspberryPi has a thousand times more.
>>
>> So Squeak _should_ run on it properly... Does it?
>
> It certainly runs 'properly'. The raw performance (currently with  
> the plain interpreter, stackvm coming soon and Cog sometime) is  
> rather good at around 40mbc/s & 1.4msends/s, which is probably  
> around 400 times faster than an Alto. Morphic UI performance is not  
> so good but that is mostly because it's terrible on *all* machines  
> with current high-end Macs etc managing to cover it up with brute  
> power. Run an older image - say 2.8 era - and consider how we have  
> managed to ruin the UI speed. Try an old image on a Pi and be amazed.

Or try Cuis on it. As responsive as the 2.8 (in a Morphic project),  
but also looks good.

> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Useful Latin Phrases:- Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est  
> in aure. = I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich