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I've been eyeing the new PinePhone as a potential candidate for a reimagining of Dynabook using Smalltalk-78 (which was built for the Notetaker) in a portable f

• jecel 6y ago
  It is interesting that you prefer Smalltalk-78 to -80. I also see that forks of Little Smalltalk 3 (which doesn't have metaclasses) are far more common that of LST 4 (which has them).
• johndoe0815 6y ago
  The PinePhone is a very interesting platform. Unfortunately, the circle library I'm using only supports Raspberry Pis so far, so porting crosstalk to the Allwinner A64 in the PinePhone (even though the processor cores are the same as in a Raspberry Pi 3) is quite an effort. Considering the large number of Allwinner-based systems out there (by Pine64, Olimex and many others), it might still be worth to spend some time on a port of circle. I can imagine this would make a nice project for Google's Summer of Code. Smalltalk-78 shouldn't be significantly different to Smalltalk-80, so a bare metal version of it sounds feasible. There's already a project to run Smalltalk-78 in a JavaScript-based VM [1]. [1] https://www.freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ingalls-2014-Smalltalk78.pdf https://www.freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ingalls-2014-S...