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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sat 27th Sep 2008 01:16 UTC, submitted by J

SqueakNOS is an old idea that has gotten the kiss of life again. Squeak is a Smalltalk system built by Alan Kay and SqueakNOS is an attempt to remove the OS underneath Squeak. You can download a VMWare playable image from their sourceforge website or you can get an iso and more details about SqueakNOS from here.

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RE: Finally, but maybe a bad route ...

by renox on Sat 27th Sep 2008 16:55 UTC in reply to "Finally, but maybe a bad route ..."

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It just feels right to have Squeak running as an OS unto itself.

I bet that's the same reason JNode exist.
Each language foo fan seem to want the whole OS written in foo.

If the language has special security features such as capability, this could be useful otherwise these OS are just toys, which is fine.

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