Squeak for OS/2
Carl Gundel
carlg at world.std.com
Fri Feb 20 03:14:02 UTC 1998
Hi Boris!
Do you know where I can get a version of Squeak for OS/2? I've been to
your site but can't seem to find an OS/2 VM there. Am I missing
something?
Thanks,
Carl
On 11 November 97, Boris <boris at dialogue.msu.su>, wrote:
>> ich recently saw your patch for running Squeak under OS/2. Are you still
>> working on this project ?
> MOST SURELY. THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING I SAW IN THE LAST
> FEW YEARS.
>> Is there a version that runs with PMX ?
> No. If you want to run Squeak in the PM session, you can do a more
> radical thing: replace the SqXWindow.c with code aware of PM. Another
> (doubtful) approach: get SqWin32Window.c and port it using Open32.
> There are many drawbacks to this, however: put alone ideology stuff
> (we are OS/2 folks, so why use Open32?), how will Open32 compile
> together with Squeak? What compiler? Gcc? then how will Open32 feel?
> IBM C? how will Squeak feel?.. too many questions, I think...
> The thing I try to achieve is different. I want to not only
> port Squeak to OS/2, but rewrite it as a pure PM application,
> 100% PM aware (maybe even VT-enabled?) To look something like
> ST/V, ***BUT THE QUESTION IS HOW TO MAKE POSSIBLY LESS CHANGES***.
> Look at it as a mathematical extremum problem (find minimum
> changes). Please see my note to Michael Cole for description
> of the project status.
>> Is there a
>> patch for Squeak 1.20?
> I'm working to package everything to an easily maintainable
> set of changes for v.1.23. Watch for it soon.
Regards,
Carl
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