SqueakOS

Derek Brans derek at phasecraft.com
Thu Oct 3 16:50:53 UTC 2002


> Once you've done it you realize that there is a lot of hardware out 
> there,
> like wireless cards, cameras, drives, etc. Hardware specs for these
> devices are often unavailable to developers because the vendors 
> typically
> supply their own device drivers for the standard OS's. So even if you
> have the time to write your own device drivers, you may lack the
> necessary documentation.

Is there a compromise between "Squeak on bare hardware" and running 
Squeak as a process on some other operating system?  What about writing 
a version of Squeak to operate on a kernel that already exists and is 
being ported to many platforms?
Derek

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