Excellent :)�� Congrats...people was expecting this since Deep Smalltalk School jajaj<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Javier Pim�s <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:elpochodelagente@gmail.com">elpochodelagente@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">For all those who may be intrested, we are glad to announce that we have just uploaded an updated version of SqueakNOS to our site.�You can find the updated download links <a href="http://squeaknos.blogspot.com/p/download.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<div>


<br></div><div>This release adds the following items to the previous version:�(99.9% modeled with objects)</div><div><br></div><div>- Improved support for ATA devices access</div><div>- Implementation of a model of files and directories</div>


<div>- Implementation of FAT32 filesystem�</div><div>- Support for reading sources from the hard disk</div><div>- Support for X86 paging setup and handling of page faults</div><div>- Implementation of a model of free and used memory</div>


<div>- Implementation of image snapshotting (based on the paging mechanism)</div><div>- Based on Pharo, but also supporting Squeak and Cuis</div><div>- Added some primitives for communicating between VM and image</div><div>


- Support for Alien and FFI</div><div>- Added basic support for writing to serial via VM so that it&#39;s possiblo to out debug info to the outside world.</div><div>- Added pretty basic ATA benchmarks</div><div>- Added some scripts to automatize work done from the outside world</div>


<div>- Many code cleanups</div><div><br></div><div>Future directions are:�</div><div><br></div><div>- Support for Cog VM</div><div>- Investigate replacing SqueakNOS plugin with NativeBoost so that we do more on the image</div>


<div>- Offloading memory pages to disk</div><div>- More tests</div><div>- Benchmarks</div><div><br></div><div>For the brave ones, remember that you can always generate a SqueakNOS image by using the ConfigurationOfSqueakNOS (which is a bit outdated now), or by manually loading the packages from monticello. Also to generate a SqueakNOS VM download its code from GIT (hosted on�<a href="http://sourceforge.net/" style="color:rgb(0, 84, 136)" target="_blank">sourceforge.net</a>).</div>


<div><br></div><div>Don&#39;t forget to visit�<a href="http://squeaknos.blogspot.com/" style="color:rgb(0, 84, 136)" target="_blank">squeaknos.blogspot.com</a>�for news and instructions. We hope to be able to write more soon.</div>


<div><br></div><div>Many thank&#39;s t all the people who made it possible to understand the code and to develop all this.</div><div><br></div><div>SqueakNOS&#39; Team<br clear="all"></div></span><font color="#888888"><br>
-- <br>Javier Pim�s<br>

Ciudad de Buenos Aires<br>
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