Richard,

Very nice. Thanks for the link to http://mypals.info/tikiwiki-2.1/tiki-index.php?page=SqueakForAlpha.

I am CCing this to the vm-dev mailing list, where various interested parties (including Ian) are likely to be reading.

Dave

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:39:01PM -0500, richard snow wrote:

http://mypals.info/tikiwiki-2.1/tiki-index.php?page=SqueakForAlpha

Here is a page with the two vms I've made (source code).

the 3.8 is a 64 bit that runs 64 bit images, the 3.10 is a 64 bit that runs 32 bit images.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David T. Lewislewis@mail.msen.com wrote:

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On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:40:38AM +1200, Michael van der Gulik wrote:

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On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:

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On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:16:02PM -0500, richard snow wrote:

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I was able to use vmmaker to generate a 64 bit vm for the Alpha. However it can't run 32 bit images, so I'm kind of stuck. Where could I get an image (3.10-6 hopefully).

I'm guessing that this would be a 64-bit image:

http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/ Squeak64-3.8g-6548.image.tar.gzhttp://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/Squeak64-3.8g-6548.image.tar.gz

But it's (IIRC) unsupported and probably unstable. 32-bit images are better supported and the garbage collector isn't really designed for images bigger than 4GB.

There's nothing unstable about that image, but unfortunately it does not run on today's VMs (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5239). Personally I use a descendent of that original 64-bit image (mainly for testing VMs) but as far as I know nobody is actively working on this.

In any case, it's of acedemic interest in this case, because what Richard needs is a 64-bit VM to run normal 32-bit images.

Dave