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On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 2:23 AM Marcel Taeumel ***@***.***><br>
wrote:<br>
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> If the VM is hardware, then Squeak is not an application but an operating<br>
> system. And not all operating systems run on new hardware. They might need<br>
> patches. And that's okay. They need patches to make the actual applications<br>
> in them work.<br>
><br>
> I think that you current perspective on compatibility between VM and Image<br>
> is unnecessarily restrictive. The image is not an application but an<br>
> operating system.<br>
><br>
<br>
An image may be include operating system (e.g. a trunk dev image), but is<br>
more.  An image may be a deployed application (e.g. stripped of the IDE, or<br>
including a restricted IDE, e.g. Scratch).  Vuewing an image as "an<br>
operating system" is vague.  Do OS's include all the apps that can run on<br>
them?  Not for me.  So an image is potentially much more, and potentially<br>
much less, than an OS.  In any case, it is something that expects certain<br>
semantics of the VM upon which it runs, and it is unreasonable and<br>
unacceptabvle for that VM to arbitrarily change its semantics, unless it is<br>
fixing bugs.<br>
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