[Cuis] First grade school question

[Germán Arduino]

Hi Nacho:

Thanks you for the comment, indeed a very interesting project.

To have Smalltalk as the "heart" of the machine is a cool stuff to achieve.

Good look and let us know your progress.


2014/1/16 Ignacio Matías Sniechowski <0800nacho at gmail.com>

> Germán,
> This is something I've been researching. As you know I'm working to have a
> kind of CuisOS for the RaspberryPi. So there are two alternatives, the
> first one is to get a lot of apps inside Cuis (like a web browser, instant
> messaging, etc) all coded in Smalltalk (this would be the ideal scenario)
> but seems to be a really hard thing to do.
> The other one is the approach you just happen to mention, which is
> obviously difficult but not impossible. However, the drawback of this is
> that there's no "enforcement" to do things in Smalltalk and the user will
> be installing C, C++, Python, Ruby.. apps on the system, and ideally I want
> to go back to the times of the Star or Dorado or the Tektronics when the
> operating system was -in a way- Smalltalk.
> Of course the kernel and the VM will remain mostly in C...and also adding
> Prolog, Lisp and Logo to Cuis would be a nice addition.
> Another line I'm researching is Wayland-Weston which - in the case of the
> RasPi- is probably the way to go, instead of sticking to X. but again,
> there's not a vm-display-wayland plugin yet.
> But I think things are moving quickly and I strongly belive Cuis has a lot
> of potential on the RasPi.
>
> Best
> Nacho
>
>
>
> *Lic. Ignacio Sniechowski, MBA*
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Germán Arduino <garduino at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> HI Juan:
>>
>> Thanks for the comment.
>>
>> Seems that the integration with Morphic is not a simple thing to do (to
>> me at least). But indeed, I think that it's a very good feature to have.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/16 <juan at jvuletich.org>
>>
>>> Hi Germán,
>>>
>>> It is possible to create native OS windows in Squeak and derivatibes.
>>> Google "ariethfa ffenestri" or take a look at (for example),
>>> http://forum.world.st/Towards-multi-head-multi-window-VM-td66028.html .
>>>
>>> It is just that nobody cared enough to integrate that into Morphic. Maybe
>>> some day...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Juan Vuletich
>>>
>>>
>>> > Exactly.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 2014/1/16 Ignacio Matías Sniechowski <0800nacho at gmail.com>
>>> >
>>> >> Hi Germán,
>>> >> What do you mean by "only one window"? It's like Pharo, Squeak and
>>> Cuis
>>> >> hold all objects inside the "World"? as opposed to Cincom who's
>>> windows
>>> >> are
>>> >> floating natively in the desktop?
>>> >> Cheers!
>>> >> Nacho
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> *Lic. Ignacio Sniechowski, MBA*
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Germán Arduino
>>> >> <garduino at gmail.com>wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Hi Guys:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I remember the topic discussed in the past in some other list but I
>>> not
>>> >>> found the logs.....I never understood completely why (in squeak,
>>> cuis,
>>> >>> pharo) we are prisoner of only 1 window? and we can't have multiple
>>> >>> windows
>>> >>> as any development environment?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Any clarification will be appreciated.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> Saludos / Regards,
>>> >>> Germán Arduino
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