Sometimes you just gotta save the world. 
I really wish I didn't have to save the world but it seems It's up to
me. =\ 

I tried to send this message yesterday but windows 3.11 crashed to DOS
while I had turned to watch TV for a few minutes. On my old 486, windows
3.11 was so bad that it wouldn't boot while I sat at the console, I
would litrally have to get up and run out of the room after hitting the
command. Inexplicably, only this procedure would alow the thing to load
without resetting to BIOS. =P


I am kinda inunndated by trafik on this list, There should be a focused
list for hacking the VM into a full modern OS, and for creating the
objects and modules for OS services... 

I really like the opportunities Squeak's VM offers. It lets me do OS
develing work without having to deal with the x86 nightmare. =) 


The best thing about squeak people is that they've already proven
themselves clueful enough to look beyond the buzzwords and find a
solution that works for them. =) 

To get started I should get a working squeak system... I have a very old
spare machine with a 520 mb drive, and my main machine which also has
BeOS on it. Unfortunately I am unable to compile the latest GCC on it.
=\ (It seems to work but there are errors...)

I also would like ISBN #s, and URLs for the current Smalltalk/Squeak
manuals and refferance materaial... I prefer hardcopy, I am also looking
at the website. There is a lot of stuff there, much of it is probably
redundant, superficial, or too specialized.. What I need is a shopping
list that will give me the COMPLETE picture without redundancy...

Once I learn enough about it, I will start specifying an implementation
of Sphere for Squeak. =) 


My goal here is to build a system that's strong enough to force
Microsoft to play fairly. =P


-- 
The Linux developer community operates like an anthill.
Thousands of autonomous agents working togeather to produce a laberynth.
http://users.erols.com/alangrimes/  <my website.