Dangerous Ideas

I haven’t had time to check this out, but SqueakNOS was recently re-released. In this context, NOS stands for “No OS”, although that could also be “as OS”. It’s a project to enable Squeak to run on bare metal (or, in the case of VMWare, virtual metal).

From the SqueakNOS project site at SourceForge:

Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation, it runs on almost every operating system, and in bare hardware. What we gonna do with SqueakNOS is getting rid of the OS under Squeak, and we’ll implement all the functionality in Smalltalk