On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:40:38AM +1200, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:16:02PM -0500, richard snow wrote:
> > > I was able to use vmmaker to generate a 64 bit vm for the Alpha.
> > > However it can't run 32 bit images, so I'm kind
> > > of stuck. Where could I get an image (3.10-6 hopefully).
> >
> 
> I'm guessing that this would be a 64-bit image:
> 
> http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/
> Squeak64-3.8g-6548.image.tar.gz<http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/Squeak64-3.8g-6548.image.tar.gz>
> 
> But it's (IIRC) unsupported and probably unstable. 32-bit images are better
> supported and the garbage collector isn't really designed for images bigger
> than 4GB.

There's nothing unstable about that image, but unfortunately it does not run
on today's VMs (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5239). Personally I use a
descendent of that original 64-bit image (mainly for testing VMs) but as far
as I know nobody is actively working on this.

In any case, it's of acedemic interest in this case, because what Richard needs
is a 64-bit VM to run normal 32-bit images.

Dave