On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 05:51:02AM +0100, Douglas Brebner wrote:
> David T. Lewis wrote:
> > FWIW, the implementation that I used for OSProcess is:
> >
> >     OSProcess class>>isWindows
> >     OSProcess class>>isUnix
> >     OSProcess class>>isUnixMac
> >     OSProcess class>>isNonUnixMac
> >     OSProcess class>>isRiscOS (1)
> >     OSProcess class>>isOS2 (2)
> >
> > And yes, Squeak does run on platforms other than unix and win32. Hopefully
> > it is not too much of a stretch to envision #isSqueakNOS, #isPlan9, #isVMS,
> > #isChrome, and #isTripos (3). And Tripos was the host for BCPL (4) which 
> > was a
> > host for early Smalltalk, which begat Squeak, which inspired Pharo, which
> > leads us to this discussion, so give some love to Tripos and also to Martin
> > Richards (5) who continues to advance the development of several of these
> > seminal technologies.
> >   
> I believe there's a port to Syllable too, and I expect to see one to
> AROS or another AmigaOS version :)

[veering hopelessly off topic, sorry]
The original AmigoOS was Tripos: http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/tripos.html



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