Python Operating System???

[John Roth]

"jtauber" <jtauber at jtauber.com> wrote in message 
news:1105219440.064891.199690 at c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> My experiment, Cleese, was making progress before I got distracted by
> other things.
>
> The approach was a micro-kernel in C made up of the CPython bytecode
> interpreter with the file-related calls to libc ripped out and some
> bare-metal port read/writes and memory operations exposed to Python as
> built-in functions.
>
> Everything else could then be written in pure Python. Dave Long was
> able to write a VGA driver in Python and an implementation of Sokoban
> that used it. You could then boot your machine to Sokoban :-)
>
> I should probably get back to it at some stage.

As my ex-wife was fond of saying, "I wish you'd have
told me it was impossible before I did it."

John Roth

>
> see http://cleese.sourceforge.net/
> James Tauber
> http://jtauber.com/blog/
>