Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Jecel Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Memory management Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 10:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 12 Message-ID: <11599536.1457.1337101478782.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjm4> References: <5e513702-bd3d-42c3-af72-7e11d57405bf@h9g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <4f8553cc.583439917@192.168.0.50> <7vydnZOKecRiXxjSnZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d@supernews.com> <9um377FctdU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 187.66.94.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1337101479 1239 127.0.0.1 (15 May 2012 17:04:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 17:04:39 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <9um377FctdU1@mid.individual.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=187.66.94.7; posting-account=qNYWnwkAAAAV29tnVQXfHVigXdWsZgZ6 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 1898 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:12191 Andy, > [...] It was only in the 1990's that the Smalltalk architects, now > working on their "Squeak" implementation, went back and added "bootup" source > code so they could rigorously document how all of the necessary state of the > VM image had come into being. Until that point, there were data structures > which were hand inserted in the 1970's and still depended upon in all VM's > twenty years later. Aren't you thinking about Little Smalltalk? Squeak and Pharo still have stuff in their images that was last hand crafted in 1974. -- Jecel