On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:13:44PM +0200, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> Lalo Martins wrote:
> > 
> > before subscribing I checked the archives and found some
> > messages from April IIRC regarding a framebuffer version of
> > Squeak. I'm about to purchase an Helio and retire my Pilot, and
> > I'd really love to have a Smalltalk-based PDA... and I'd be
> > willing to help with the effort, although I don't really have
> > any experience with fb programming.
> > 
> > So, is anyone still working on this actively?
> 
> 
> http://mathmorphs.swiki.net/9
> 
> A link to the SqueakNOS, a no os Squeak project. Seems feasible and 
> more ram efficient than putting Squeak on top of the linux kernel.

I don't know. On first impression, sounded like a lot of work
for no real gain. I'm not really ready to use Squeak as the
everyday OS, it definitely is years away from having all the
tools I need (unless it can run either Linux, Win32 or Mac apps
on some kind of emulation); and on the desktop, I'd *never*
again use an OS which doesn't have decent multitasking and an
Unix-like security model.

But then I read "the future of Squeak" on the Squeakbook, and I
figured it actually makes sense. Okay, I'd still not replace
GNU/Linux by Squeak on the desktop, but I can see the logic of
the project.

That said, wouldn't it be less herculean to use some sort of
microkernel, like l4ka (www.l4ka.org) or the Mach family on top
of which GNU is building the Hurd (see
www.gnu.org/software/hurd/learning-more-about-microkernels.html)?

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