I am referring specifically to an interpreter VM that you might build from the latest updated sources according to this recipe:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6354
That is not very helpful if you are on a Mac, sorry for that. I think that it may work on Mac if you have the X11 support installed, but I am not in a position to verify it.
The squeakvm.org site is getting out of date, although Ian Piumarta said in private email that he would welcome constructive input to bring it up to date, and possibly to update the interpreter VM builds if there is some general interest in doing so.
Dave
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 06:17:55PM -0500, Bob Arning wrote:
Is the current interpreter VM (for the mac) one of the ones on http://www.squeakvm.org/mac/? I'm not clear how to parse the names of things into what they can or cannot do.
On 12/21/16 5:56 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 05:15:29PM -0500, Bob Arning wrote:
Is there a specific oldest image which current VMs are expected to run?
A current interpreter VM should run a Squeak 3.2 image, although with some problems. It should be able to run images from the Squeak 3.6 and 3.8 era without problems. And it should run anything else up to but not including Spur.
Dave
On 12/21/16 11:38 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
Following up on this, the backward compatibility for interpreter VM supporting old images was broken in VMMaker-dtl.387 of 8 November 2016, due to my attempt to align the primitive table closer to Cog/Spur: