On 24-Feb-07, at 10:43 AM, Steve Burbeck wrote:
So, anyone who wishes to reimplement the interpreter is home free. I would guess that it wouldn't be a huge task to repurpose the Squeak interpreter to run Methods.
Well don't forget that most of the compiler was in the v m as well; that would add quite a lot of effort.
To the best of my knowledge I had the first copy of Methods in Europe. I was an IBM Research fellow at the time, working on UI stuff for 3D CAD systems. It's rather disconcerting to think that on a 4- ish MHz 8086 with less than 1MB of ram, it was possible to run a tolerable Smalltalk with a snappy UI. Now I have a 4Ghz (split across 2 cpus) and 2GB ram and the UI is just barely tolerable.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim "How many Pak Protectors does it take to change a lightbulb?" "Only one, but the lightbulb has to smell right."