Sometimes you just gotta save the world. I really wish I didn't have to save the world but it seems It's up to me. =\
I tried to send this message yesterday but windows 3.11 crashed to DOS while I had turned to watch TV for a few minutes. On my old 486, windows 3.11 was so bad that it wouldn't boot while I sat at the console, I would litrally have to get up and run out of the room after hitting the command. Inexplicably, only this procedure would alow the thing to load without resetting to BIOS. =P
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...
I really like the opportunities Squeak's VM offers. It lets me do OS develing work without having to deal with the x86 nightmare. =)
The best thing about squeak people is that they've already proven themselves clueful enough to look beyond the buzzwords and find a solution that works for them. =)
To get started I should get a working squeak system... I have a very old spare machine with a 520 mb drive, and my main machine which also has BeOS on it. Unfortunately I am unable to compile the latest GCC on it. =\ (It seems to work but there are errors...)
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...
Once I learn enough about it, I will start specifying an implementation of Sphere for Squeak. =)
My goal here is to build a system that's strong enough to force Microsoft to play fairly. =P