Just sharing something thats been circling my head for a while about a possible OpenSmalltalk based IoT platform. Many micro-controllers support FreeRTOS https://www.freertos.org/RTOS_ports.html including the ARMv7 https://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS_Features.html and the ESP32 (based on Cadence's Tensilica Xtensa LX6) https://www.espressif.com/en/media_overview/news/espressifs-esp32-support-am... Of particular interest is Amazon's adoption of FreeRTOS and its change of license from GPLv2 to MIT. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/announcing-freertos-kernel-v10/ If a "thing" is not doing graphics, then the StackInterpreter may be sufficient for many IoT applications. Having a FreeRTOS build target for the StackInterpreter might open the opportunity to have our Images running as the *only* application on a wide variety of embedded systems. A tight Edit-Compile-Run-Debug cycle using the TelePharo remote tools might be very compelling versus the usual Edit-Compile-Download-Boot-Run-BlindGuessDebug cycle. I'd expect interest that starts with the hobby-maker community, might later extend into the lucrative industrial control market in competition with traditional PLCs. Maybe getting the StackInterpreter running on a new platform could make a good advanced-student project? For starters, there seems a simulator here (I haven't used it) https://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS-simulator-for-Linux.html which raises one question... I understand the VM has a problem with some simulators but is that more a problem for the JIT part of Cog than the StackInterpreter? cheers -ben