[Vm-dev] Re: MacOS vs MacOSX?

Stephan Eggermont stephan at stack.nl
Tue Jun 10 10:31:19 UTC 2014


Bert wrote:
>Nah, I didn't want to discourage you. The interpreter VM on Mac is not maintained currently anyway. The Stack VM might work on PPC but I don't think anyone ever >tried. And I don't know even know for sure if Squeak ever worked on a 68K Mac (although I suppose it did) - Apple switched to PowerPC in 1994 and Squeak was >released in 1996. Supporting 68K would be just for completeness, not much actual usefulness.

The first time I tried Squeak was on a Macintosh LC475, a 25MHz 68LC040 machine with 36 MB of ram. 
About a decade before I switched to smalltalk. 

Stephan


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