On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Aaron J Reichow wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking for someone to port Squeak, hopefully a 3.0-era VM to Newton
> OS 2.x.  I could try to do it myself, but let's just say that doing C-ish
> work isn't my thing.  I'm an aspiring biologist, not a programmer.
> However, a version of Squeak for the Newton is worth a lot to me, but I am
> a mere undergrad student, paying his own way through school, so I don't
> have a lot of money to contract this project out- but I would if I could.
> The most I could really afford is around $250.

>From what I remember, I don't really think it's feasible. Alas. I, in
fact, bought my Newt in expectation of running Squeak on it. Good thing it
was cool enough for me too be happy with it sans Squeak :)

> I know there's only a miniscule probability that anyone will be interested
> in taking this job, but if there's any way I could return to the Newton
> platform, I figure it's worth posting this. :)

Indeed :)

> Also, let me apologize for the goofiness of this request- I assure you,
> I'm not insane, just a little attached to both of my favorite computing
> platform- Newton OS and Smalltalk.

A perhaps more reasonable task would be to port PocketSmalltalk, though
that's hardly as comfy an enviroment.

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.