On 13-Oct-07, at 3:22 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:
Hi,
anyone tried to put a squeak vm on an iRex iLiad or knows anything about it?
I'm sure we could make a VM that would run on it but I'm also sure that you'd need a fairly different image to be of any use. You certainly wouldn't want any background processing constantly updating animations, for example. The performance would be probably be fine with an MVC type image, lousy with Morphic - these displays are generally slow to update and most of the power consumption is in the changing of pixels.. Memory is pretty minimal and there's no immmediately obvious info on how much might be available to an application like Squeak.
I'd love to be able to work on something like this though. After all it's a contemporary version of the Active Book I was working on nearly 20 years ago...
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