[SqNOS] [ANN] SqueakNOS update released!

> For all those who may be intrested, we are glad to
> announce that we have
> just uploaded an updated version of SqueakNOS to
> our site. You can find the
> updated download links here
> <http://squeaknos.blogspot.com/p/download.html>.
>
> This release adds the following items to the
> previous version: (99.9%
> modeled with objects)
>
> - Improved support for ATA devices access
> - Implementation of a model of files and
> directories
> - Implementation of FAT32 filesystem
> - Support for reading sources from the hard disk
> - Support for X86 paging setup and handling of
> page faults
> - Implementation of a model of free and used
> memory
> - Implementation of image snapshotting (based on
> the paging mechanism)
> - Based on Pharo, but also supporting Squeak and
> Cuis
> - Added some primitives for communicating between
> VM and image
> - Support for Alien and FFI
> - Added basic support for writing to serial via VM
> so that it's possiblo to
> out debug info to the outside world.
> - Added pretty basic ATA benchmarks
> - Added some scripts to automatize work done from
> the outside world
> - Many code cleanups
>
> Future directions are:
>
> - Support for Cog VM
> - Investigate replacing SqueakNOS plugin with
> NativeBoost so that we do more
> on the image
> - Offloading memory pages to disk
> - More tests
> - Benchmarks
>
> For the brave ones, remember that you can always
> generate a SqueakNOS image
> by using the ConfigurationOfSqueakNOS (which is a
> bit outdated now), or by
> manually loading the packages from monticello.
> Also to generate a SqueakNOS
> VM download its code from GIT (hosted on
> sourceforge.net).
>
> Don't forget to visit squeaknos.blogspot.com for
> news and instructions. We
> hope to be able to write more soon.
>
> Many thank's t all the people who made it possible
> to understand the code
> and to develop all this.
>
> SqueakNOS' Team
>
> --
> Javier Pimás
> Ciudad de Buenos Aires
>