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

[Gerhard =?unknown-8bit?Q?H=E4ring?=]

* cruciatuz <sasoft at gmx.de> [2002-04-01 10:08 +0000]:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:14:35AM +0200, Gerhard H?ring 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.

Yes, indeed. I used that once. It was basically kernel 2.0.something with
busybox and a stripped-down Python 1.5.2.

Gerhard
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