I think the "small hardware" market is another area where Pharo can make a good showing for itself, because it's small & relatively lightweight compared to others. So it makes good sense to me to couple Pharo with a similarly lightweight OS. I like the idea of "Pharo as OS + app on dedicated hardware", but doing it in the way of a "tiny Linux" OS for the VM to run with, rather than "let's make the VM into its own OS!" as has been suggested before -- because then you must code nearly everything in Pharo if you do that. (In the end, you would essentially end up incorporating the Linux kernel into the VM.) A compact Linux allows delegation of some tasks by the Pharo app to an existing Linux app. (At least until that app can be recoded in Pharo, of course. :^) -t -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html