Hi--
I have successfully removed class SystemDictionary (and its sole instance, "Smalltalk") from the minimal object memory. There is now no global state per se, only a few objects that the VM knows about via the "special objects array". As I described before[1], each method literal for referring to a class is the responsibility of the class itself (stored in the "name" slot provided by Class).
Now I'm moving on with creating a "hello world" module (one that just draws anything to the display). I plan to make another release when that works.
more to come,
-C
[1]
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/spoon/2006-July/000124.html
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