On Dec 4, 2007, at 8:54 , Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

>>> I saw this article on osnews.com
>>> http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18986/Nintendos-ES-Operating-System
>>> There is even a screenshot of it running Squeak:
>>> http://nes.sourceforge.jp/screenshot.html
>>
>> Anyone know more about this.  Performance?  Ease of install?
>
>   Hmm... I don't know about the performance on a real DS (I don't know
> if somebody outside of Nintendo can install it to a real DS.  In fact,
> I only suspect that they made it run on DS but have not seen the real
> evidence.)  The version that works on QEMU, as well as the version
> that runs as an OS are available.  In that regard, installation to a
> Windows computer seems to be easy.
>
>   The aim of their research is to make a new component-based operating
> system.  Each system call is done via C++ virtual function call via
> interface objects (but doesn't have to do COM-style query).  The call
> is "introspected" so that the arguments are checked upon each call,
> and allows call back from a system call to the user component, etc.
>
>   Squeak is an interesting application to port to a new OS, of course.

Where does it mention running on a Nintendo DS? All I see are  
references to an x86 version ...

- Bert -