Squeak on a Chip

Maloney johnm at wdi.disney.com
Thu Apr 9 15:36:04 UTC 1998


At 3:51 PM -0700 4/8/98, Mike Klein wrote:
>I wrote:
>
>>        Back in the (not so) old days, the quitPrimitive had a comment akin to:
>>        
>>              "Exit from the VM to the host OS, if there is one"
>> 
>>        These days, the "if there is one" has been taken out.
>>        I suppose one of the Squeak Manifesto directives should be to
>>        put this comment back in.
>
>And in the long tradition of flaming oneself:
>
>Mike, you idiot!!!  You spend way to much time in VisualWorks!!!
>Squeak still says:  (SystemDitionary >># quitPrimitive)
>
>	"Exit to another operating system on the host machine, if one exists."

And if you saw the demo of Squeak running on the "bare-chip" Mitsubishi
computer at OOPSLA, you know that we mean this!

	-- John





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