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Hello,<br>
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as you probably know, the company Daedalos Consulting GmbH has tried - in
cooperation with Gordon Cichon - to port Self 4.0 to Linux. Unfortunatly
the project was stopped after a while mainly because we didn’t have had
enough ressources (man-power) to complete the task. <br>
<br>
In cooperation with a collegue I will take up this project and force it
during the next few weeks. In order to get an impression I will introduce
my collegue and myself:<br>
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Last june I completed my degree in computer science with maths . Up until
the end of October I was employed by the University of Freiburg (Germany)
as a developer in the area of Robotic and Artificial Intelligence. As a
member of the successfull CS-Freiburg-team, who won the
world-championship of robotsoccer last August in Melbourne-Australia, I
was responsible for graphiccard-programming and image-processing, using
C++ under RT-Linux. I have also a good knowledge of MASM (Microsoft Macro
Assembler) programming, but no<br>
experience in Assembler-programming under Linux. <br>
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My collegue Thomas Franken worked for Daedalos since 1996 as a specialist
for smalltalk-programming. He has a good knowledge of
compiler-development and codegeneration, but no experience and knowledge
concerning the structure of the Smalltalk VM.<br>
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In all probability we are involved with the realization of this task from
the beginning of december 2000 until the end of march 2001. We have
downloaded the source of Self 4.1.2 from the web site
<a href="http://www.sun.com/research/self" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF">www.sun.com/research/self</a></font>.
Similar to the sparc-version (svr4) of Self we created subdirectories for
Linux and i386 on the appropriate places (we’ve cloned the
sparc-processor specific code from src/svr4 to src/i386). After some
modification on Makefiles we were able to create the Dependencie and the
incl/_*.incl-files in the subdirectory Linux/generated. Then we tried to
compile the Linux/optimized version but we’ve got a lot of fancy
messages. <br>
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Now we want to address to you hoping that someone of you could give us
some advice concerning the following topics:<br>
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- Assembler-Programming on the Sparc-Architecture (we `ve already ordered
the following book: SPARC Architecture, Assembly Language Programming,
& C written by Richard Paul)<br>
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- Assembler-Programming under Linux, e.g. signal handling (as you can see
above we have good knowledge in Assembler-programming under Windows and
C++-Programming under Linux) <br>
<br>
- a good overview of the structure of the vm-source-code. <br>
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We are using the Linux-Kernel-Version 2.2.16<br>
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Please contact us under:<br>
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<font color="#0000FF">Maximilian.Thiel@daedalos.com<br>
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<font color="#0000FF">Thomas.Franken@daedalos.com<br>
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</font>Sincerly,<br>
<br>
Thomas & Maximilian<br>
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Good Self-Confidence!<br>
<br>
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Self-Contact@Daedalos:<br>
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Daedalos Consulting GmbH <br>
Ruhrtal 5 <br>
58456 Witten <br>
Deutschland<br>
Tel: +49 x2302 9790 <br>
Fax: +49 x2302 979199 <br>
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E-Mail: <font color="#0000FF"><u>Maximilian.Thiel@daedalos.com<br>
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<font color="#0000FF"><u>Thomas.Franken@daedalos.com<br>
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<a href="http://www.daedalos.com/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.daedalos.com</a><br>
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