[Vm-dev] Squeak/Pharo VM fork history

Bruce O'Neel bruce.oneel at pckswarms.ch
Tue May 19 18:34:16 UTC 2020


For more background there is a nice paper on the squeak site.  
  
[https://squeak.org/documentation/](https://squeak.org/documentation/)  
  
- Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, John Maloney, Scott Wallace, and Alan Kay. Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak–A Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself. In: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), ACM SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 32, no. 10, pages 318-326, 1997. ([ACM DL](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=263698.263754), [VPRI](http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf))  




  
  
[http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf](http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf)  
  
Scanning the paper pretty quickly shows that it was on 68k first, a Duo 230 is mentioned (33 mhz 68030) as well as a PowerMac 8100 (80 - 110 MHz PPC 601).  

> On 18/05/20 5:00 pm, karl ramberg wrote:  
>  > Squeak was made on MacOS 7, 8 or 9 before Apple used Unix.  
>   
>  Thank you for the correction. AFAIK, the first releases were on MacOS  
>  System 7.0 (68020 or PPC). Ian's Unix ports and Andreas Raab's Wintel  
>  port followed pretty quickly - a tribute to Squeak's portability.  
>   
>  Regards .. Subbu
  

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