Hello Joshua,

Saturday, August 23, 2008, 9:42:38 AM, you wrote:

> I think that (part of) the point is to be able to bootstrap with minimal
> tool support, and thereafter to be self-supporting.  The bootstrap
> process is described better than I can in Section 6.1 of "Accessible
> Language-Based Environments of Recursive Theories", available on the
> VPRI website.  C is described as a "portable high-level assembly language".

Ian already wrote wrote most of the code in idst/Pepsi which is
Smalltalk-like.
Most of .c files (all? I can't find anything else, except GC which is
from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc ) for Pepsi are
generated by idc (Pepsi compiler), and they're in that form just for
bootstrapping. 

-- 
Best regards,
 Derek                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
CCNA, SCSA, SCNA, LPIC, MCP certified

Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk!



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