PyOS -- was: Re: ANN: cage 1.0 -- Cellular automata engine in Python

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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:14:35AM +0200, Gerhard Häring wrote:
> * Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> [2002-03-29 17:47 -0800]:
> > Here's the latest PyOS installment:
> > [...]
> 
> For one second I thought: "Hey cool - somebody wrote an operating system in
> Python." :-)
>  
> This would be a nice exercise, IMO: use an existing kernel and C library, like
> Linux and glibc, then implement everything starting, including /sbin/init and
> the standard network servers (echo, finger, ...) in Python. Add a little Python
> shell and voila - the PyOS :-)
there was (the link is dead): "spyLinux" at
http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/minilinux.html

it was a boot-disk which booted linux and came with a small
python-interpreter. it was quite nice.