<div dir="ltr">I think it's pretty safe to say that there aren't too many 68k machines still running on a daily basis, whether or not any of them ever ran Squeak. PPC is probably still worth supporting presently.<div>
<br></div><div>It seems likely that Squeak was originally bootstrapped on a 68k machine, but I think part of the goal was to get rid of that old hunk of junk:)</div><div><br></div><div>"Worse yet, the original interpreter consisted of 120 pages of sparsely commented 68020 assembly code"</div>
<div>-- from Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak, A Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself</div><div><br></div><div>P.S.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm glad to see that you intend to support the PDP11, BTW!<br></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:29 AM, gettimothy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gettimothy@zoho.com" target="_blank">gettimothy@zoho.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br><u></u><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><div><div>>Nah, I didn't want to discourage you. The interpreter VM on Mac is not maintained currently anyway. The Stack VM might work on PPC but I don't think anyone ever tried. And I don't know even know for sure if Squeak ever worked on a 68K Mac (although I suppose it did) - Apple >switched to PowerPC in 1994 and Squeak was released in 1996. Supporting 68K would be just for completeness, not much actual usefulness.</div>
<div>>Bert</div></div><div><br></div><div>>The StackVM does not currently work on PPC, but Eliot is looking into it and I am going to fill out the FFI in ThreadedPPCBEFFIPlugin. So we will have a Cog/Stack VM for PPC. </div>
<div>>Doug</div></div><div><br></div><div>Awesome.<br></div><div><br>Thanks guys.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I will add a GNU build directory for build.macosppc to put that GNU make configuration in.</div><div><br></div>
<div>On the CMake side, I will add that category.</div><div><br></div><div>I will add the M68000 stuff just as soon as I get the VAX and PDP11 stuff done (:</div><div><br></div><div>cheers.</div><div><br></div><div>tty</div>
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