Squeak Socket Primitives

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Fri Nov 12 20:44:35 UTC 1999


On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 John.Maloney at disney.com wrote:

> Henrik:
> 
> Thanks for the information!
> 
> From what you say, we need two different ports of the Squeak
> VM, one for Server OS X (based on the BSD socket API), and
> one for the Mac OS (based on the Carbon API's).
> 
[snip]
> 
> We'll still need a Squeak that runs under Mac OS API's. That
> one will have to use the OpenTransport API for sockets. There

Nope, one doesn't *have* to. One can use GUSI 2.

> are a few other things that need to get migrated to Carbon,
> but that's the biggie. I'll do this work, but advice and help
> is welcome.

And GUSI 2 supports unixy file access and emulates (to some degree)
pthreads.

GUSI2 runs on the regular MacOS quite a ways back.

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.





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