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by saijanai 2463 days ago
Simply use the squeak VM as your starting point.

If there is a C compiler and sufficient memory to hold the image, all of squeak can be ported to a new processor in a few week.

Alan Kay's original Smalltalk team did that with the MIckey Mouse PDA when they were working at Disney — they knew who they would be working for next and so named the opensource Smalltalk-80 project at Apple "Squeak" in honor of that venerable old mouse.

Even after the team left Disney, the name stuck (and now you know the rest of the story).