sbb@laplace.sun.com (Steve Byrne) (11/03/90)
[Mr. Aidun: your return addresses don't work, so I'm posting here] Yes. It's trivial. Take one of the standard sun config files (like m-sun-os4.h), copy it, and remove the BIG_ENDIAN #define. Hardware requirements: really, the requirements are mostly having enough virtual memory (8 Meg for comfortable operation, but you can change a constant in mstoop.c to make it less). GNU Smalltalk is currently primarily non-graphics based. It has a very primitive interface to the raw X protocol layer. It does have an Emacs mode which allows you to do some things (like doIt) that you'd find in a normal Smalltalk. More features (browsing) like that are coming in version 1.2, but will continue to be Emacs based. GNU Smalltalk is pretty good about interfacing to C code, and will be better in 1.2, allowing call-backs and direct manipulation of C structs from within Smalltalk. Unfortunately, I'm not finding that I have a consistent amount of time to work on the system, so I can't really predict when 1.2 will be out. A realistic guess would be by the end of the year; I'd like to have it be sooner, but given all that I want to do to the system and my limited time I think it will end up being about then. Steve (oh, Sun 386i support will be in 1.2 :-)