On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 11:59:09PM +0100, Stefan Rieken wrote:
> So what I wonder is: could we port Squeak to native hardware, as an OS?

There are some experimental "SqueakOS"-Versions, e.g a text-mode
comand-line only "Bootable VM" for x86:

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|zip:    http://www.ira.uka.de/~marcus/SqueakOS.image.zip
|Source: http://www.ira.uka.de/~marcus/SqueakOS-src.tar.gz                       
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|Building the Boot-disk:
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|Linux: dd if=SqueakOS.image of=/dev/fd0
|DOS/Win: use rawrite, ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/squeak/demo/rawrite2.exe
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No graphics... but there is a Linux-based Boot-Disk with graphics:

http://members.xoom.com/squeakos

"The disk boots an old Linux, runs a Squeak 2.2 with svgalib 1.4.0
 in 800x600x256 and a relative big image (900kb)"


  Marcus


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