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Ralph Johnson talks about some interesting Squeak work:
The last few weeks I've been looking at Pavel Krivanek's project to break Squeak into smaller modules. Unlike most people, who start at the top and try to carve out pieces, he is starting at the bottom. He has developed several images. KernalImage is a Squeak image without any GUI. It has collections, numbers, classes, the compiler, but little else. It has a text-based UI that can evaluate Smalltalk expressions, and it can load files from disk. Pavel has a fileIn for Monticello, so then you can load any other package, as long as it doesn't have a GUI.
KernelImage is a place I'd like to see VW get to, with everything else loadable.