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V - Virtual Machine
The Squeak.exe loads a Squeak
Image and starts a
Virtual Machine. This is a
part of the Squeak Environment that mediates between the code running inside
the Squeak environment and the processor (i.e.
hardware), and that - figuratively speaking -
helps precook code for the processor. It is worked with so-called
Primitives,
that are written in C (or in a part of Squeak that translates Squeak code to
C), and that can be called from ordinary Squeak code.