[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] Re: can't start Squeak on one Ubuntu system anymore

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Jun 5 11:12:01 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 10:13:16AM +0000, J. Vuletich (mail lists) wrote:
> 
> Quoting "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> 
> >...
> >traditionally
> >used within the VM team, in which the original authors of the  
> >various VM platform
> >implementations (initially John, Ian, Andreas, Tim) have assumed  
> >responsibility
> >for specific OS platforms.
> >...
> >
> >Dave
> 
> Just a small note for the historically inclined. I should be included  
> in that list, as I did the OS/2 port of Squeak in 1997. I'm pretty  
> sure that was before Acorn, and at one time it had the fastest display  
> update and lowest latency audio of them all. I used it and maintained  
> it for several years, until OS/2 essentially died. The bits are still  
> available at  
> http://www.jvuletich.org/Squeak/SqueakForOS2/SqueakForOS2Eng.html . In  
> the OS/2 desktop screenshot there you can see the C projects for the  
> VM and several plugins.

Thanks for the reminder Juan.

This is of more than just historical interest, because ports to various
runtime platforms (including Android, SqueakNOS, JavaScript runtimes,
and others) are important for maintaining Squeak and the VM as a portable
system.

Dave



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