Hi all, I do not remember all the details but most of SqueakNOS has been written in Smalltalk! even some drivers ;-)
http://squeaknos.blogspot.ch/ Cheers, #Luc 2014-09-19 21:41 GMT+02:00 kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com>: > 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. >>> >> >> >
