Hi Craig,

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> 
> As for the sizes, my own motivations are still these:
> 
> - Make the system start as quickly as possible, including initial system
> download. My current desired upper bound for the download wait is
> something like ten seconds on a typical broadband connection. Roughly,
> that's 10 seconds at 1Mbit/sec, or 10Mbit, call it 1MB transfer size.
> 
> - Get each of the VM and snapshot transfer sizes to be under 100KB, so
> as to invoke the "under three digits" psychological effect. :)  I'm
> currently at at a 91K snapshot and 99K VM. I'm not so concerned with the
> runtime memory footprint, since my targets are all relatively cavernous
> memory-wise (desktops, laptops, PDAs, phones).    
> The 1MB figure is probably a reasonable upper bound to assume. 
> My guess is that the lower bound for the functionality I want is a 
> 50K snapshot and 50K VM.
> 

    This 50K/50K sounds good, but how well does it scale ?

    Bear in mind that a full blown image, from an extensible 
    Squatty one, 50K  will become something like 10M ? ;-)

> (Squat progress messages, including vague guesses 
> at release timing, at http://netjam.org/squat )
> 

    I couldn't find any release timing there, can you post it here .

    Cheers,

    SmallSqueak.