�� I'm sure Im opening an old topic but anyway, as I was riding the train to work today I saw a shop called "Audio Images" and it struck me how overloaded the term image is, and how poor a term for the contents of the image file Smalltalk image is. �What's in the image is a snapshot of... almost the entire system (minus platform-specific virtual machine and possibly minus sources). �So Smalltalk system file would be a far better term and stsys a more unique file extension (and according to Wikipedia STS is unused too). �I can imagine that changing form image would be hugely expensive in documentation terms (docs, websites, workspaces, etc, etc). �But I can at least dream of a better term.

"And the wheel," said the Captain, "What about this wheel thingy? It sounds a terribly interesting project."
"Ah," said the marketing girl, "Well, we're having a little difficulty there."
"Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford. "Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!"
The marketing girl soured him with a look.
"Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be."