I seriously doubt that SqueakNOS uses smalltalk to program the drivers
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote: > Yes, that's something I would have loved to have, a single language to > program everything, right from the drivers to user interface and > applications. > > SqueakNOS looks very interesting, but still is way behind a combination of > Linux kernel + X + Pharo in terms of hardware support and maturity. > > Also, in case you didn't know, there was an effort made to run Squeak > directly on bare metal (Mitsubishi M32R/D) which worked like a charm, but > has been suppressed for unknown reasons. > > ~Mayuresh > > > > On 2014-09-20 01:00, Torsten Bergmann wrote: > >> The idea is to build a minimalist Linux based system which would boot up >>> straight into a full-screen Pharo environment. >>> >> >> Why use a Linux underneath when you can do it in Smalltalk ;) >> >> Look at SqueakNOS - an operating system that was/still is able to >> boot from disk right into Squeak: >> >> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1762 >> >> Accessing devices/writing drivers in Smalltalk, etc. >> >> Would like to know if it's some how possible to control external >>> programs from within Pharo, essentially shell scripts for network setup, >>> etc. >>> >> >> Check out the "OSProcess" package in Pharo. >> >> Bye >> T. >> > >
