[Cuis-dev] VectorEnginePlugin: parts in motion

[Phil B]

Joseph,

While I appreciate the dream of a Smalltalk NOS environment, I don't think
most people who embark on it really think through the reality of the
limitations the resulting environment will end up with (both in terms of
device support and resulting image capabilities) or the amount of work
required to get there and keep it running on modern hardware.

If this is an area that interests you, I'd suggest paying close attention
to Ken's work as he seems to have had the most success at living in a
reduced/minimal overhead Smalltalk environment.  I'd credit a lot of his
success to being pragmatic, persistent and realistic about what's
achievable at the scale he/we operate.

Thanks,
Phil

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 9:15 AM Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Yeah I saw that, there was also a PharoNOS as well. Guess interest was
> lost sadly.
>
> Aug 9, 2021 9:05:03 AM Eric Gade <eric.gade at gmail.com>:
>
> Joseph,
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 7:11 AM Joseph Turco <italian.pepe.32 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  As I've mentioned before, there is a bare metal smalltalk "OS" someone
>> has made that boots into the original smalltalk 80. Its only for raspberry
>> pis so your point on drivers is true. Its a very specific. Hardware
>> platform its supporting. Imagine doing that for a a lot of stuff for modern
>> smalltalk "OS". That would be massive project....
>>
>
> There is also the CogNOS project <https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS> --
> which sadly seems to have been left abandoned -- that attempted to do some
> of these basic things. Quite interesting to look through.
>
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