I am kinda inunndated by trafik on this list, There should be a focused list for hacking the VM into a full modern OS, and for creating the objects and modules for OS services...
Been there, done that, got the layoff letter. Not worth the time; plenty of other people are playing with OS's (although it does seem they are mostly just repeating stuff from thirty years ago, badly) so just make use of any good results. There are better uses of ones time.
To get started I should get a working squeak system...
That would certainly help.
I also would like ISBN #s, and URLs for the current Smalltalk/Squeak manuals and refferance materaial... I prefer hardcopy, I am also looking at the website. There is a lot of stuff there, much of it is probably redundant, superficial, or too specialized.. What I need is a shopping list that will give me the COMPLETE picture without redundancy...
Ain't no such thing. There is plently of doc around, most of it referenced from the squeak.org site and/or the swiki. Much of it only exists in virtual form. There are two books on Squeak (search amazon.com or you favourite booksite for 'Squeak and guzdial') and several on Smalltalk. Even ignoring the completely implausible request for no redundancy, there simply isn't any such thing as 'complete'. We keep changing things!
My goal here is to build a system that's strong enough to force Microsoft to play fairly. =P
Been there, done that (twice), got _both_ layoff letters. Oh, I'm being redundant again.
tim