Python for 8086???

[ssthapa at harper.uchicago.edu]

Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
>There's the Python port to the Palm Pilot.  That might be a good place
>to start...  Don't know how small your box is, but the Pilot is a
>68000 kind of CPU with 8MB RAM.  I was shown a copy of it at a recent
>LUG meeting, and it doesn't look too bad, but is still missing some
>things (floats? forms).

    If he's using a garden variety 8086 then his system will probably have
640K of memory and possibly a few megs of expanded memory (the kind you can
only access a page at a time).  I'm fairly sure that the python interpeter 
takes 1+ MB of memory to start with so it some radical surgery would probably
be needed. 

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