[ANN] SqueakOS

[Brian Rice]

Well, there's a new kid on the block among bootable languages... With a
little work, this VM could be turned into a Self/R clone.  Any comments?

Of course, this only re-inforces my faith in using Squeak (a.k.a. Tunes LLL
candidate) to bootstrap Arrow, since squeak already supports a simple
abstract language, has a large library of very usable code, and supports a
Lisp development environment.

>Resent-Date: 11 Oct 1999 09:56:55 -0000
>Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ;
>Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:03:41 +0200
>From: Marcus Denker <marcus@ira.uka.de>
>To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu
>Subject: [ANN] SqueakOS
>X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i
>Resent-From: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu
>Reply-To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu
>X-Mailing-List: <squeak@cs.uiuc.edu> archive/latest/11368
>X-Loop: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu
>Resent-Sender: squeak-request@cs.uiuc.edu
>
>Hi!
>  
>I played with "The OSKit" (http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/) this
>weekend.
>  
>The result is a bootable VM (x86 only), based on EmbeddedSqueak.
>Text-mode command-line only, I've put a diskimage of a bootable
>1.44MB floppy at http://www.ira.uka.de/~marcus/SqueakOS.image.gz
>  
>zip:    http://www.ira.uka.de/~marcus/SqueakOS.image.zip
     
>Source: http://www.ira.uka.de/~marcus/SqueakOS-src.tar.gz
>
>Building the Boot-disk:
>
>Linux: dd if=SqueakOS.image of=/dev/fd0
>DOS/Win: use rawrite, ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/squeak/demo/rawrite2.exe
     
>
>The SqueakOS-Kernel is only 440K:
>
>-rw-rw-r--   1 marcus   marcus     454619 Oct 10 22:15 zImage
>
>This includes the 600k embedded.image!
>
>   Marcus
>
>-- 
>Marcus Denker marcus@ira.uka.de phone@home:(0721)614235 @work:(0721)608-2749
>The Difference between today and yesterday is not so much what has changed
>between then and now as what I hope to change by tomorrow.
>
>