I am impressed.... :)
So much potential here , lovely. On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Javier Pimás <elpochodelage...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I seriously doubt that SqueakNOS uses smalltalk to program the drivers >> > > Actually, it does. The thing is that most drivers can be written in > Smalltalk and glued with very very little assembly. 3 years ago, during our > MSc thesis we added drivers to support virtual memory management and hard > drives, all of them in smalltalk. In the end, the only assembly required > was for I/O, for accesing special processor registers like CR0 and CR3 and > to bind a function address to a Smalltalk block (callbacks). All of this > was abstracted into primitives and managed at image side. > > Cheers! > Javier > > > >> >> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Javier Pimás > Ciudad de Buenos Aires >
