On Monday 04 November 2002 9:36 am, Andreas Raab wrote:
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> It's relatively simple to make a rough cut at 300-400k in Squeak "as a
> useful small system", e.g., without doing a lot of careful crafting and
> still be able to do about everything you can imagine. At this size you
> end up with basically the following stuff:
> a) Kernel (Object, Boolean, Behavior, Class etc)
> b) Processes (Process, Delay, ProcessorScheduler etc)
> c) Execution (CompiledMethod, Contexts, Exceptions)
> d) Magnitudes
> e) Collections (the basic ones; String, BA, Set, Dict, Array, OC etc)
> f) Streams (the basic internal ones)
> g) Files (directories, streams)
> h) Compiler
>
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> Cheers,
>   - Andreas

My past experience with Smalltalk was as a business application programmer.  I 
never got into internals and base classes much.  I have used only Smalltalk/V 
from Digitalk.  I admit I am overwhelmed at the huge (relative) image of 
Squeak 3.2.  Personally, I was hopeing for a more minimalist product, 
something more like Smalltalk/V DOS, that I could then add to as I grew and 
learned.  As simply a user, and not a Smalltalk guru,  I would like to see 
something like this.  I would use it.

Albert



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