porting python to embeded devices

[Paul Rubin]

Steve Lamb <grey at despair.dmiyu.org> writes:
> On 12 Apr 2002 16:04:50 -0700, Paul Rubin <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote:
> > I'd say it's hopeless or at least impractical.  Those processors are
> > much too constrained to run Python.  It would be like trying to run an
> > SQL database on them.  Python has many virtues but being able to run
> > on very tiny processors isn't one of them.
> 
>     What about something like the Zaurus SL-5500?

The SL5500 is a high powered computer with a 32-bit CPU and 64 MB of
ram.  It runs Python just fine.  The computers the OP was asking about
are 8-bit CPU's with a few dozen to a few hundred bytes of ram (well
maybe a few kbytes for some 68HC11 configurations).  There's a
tremendous difference.  While there are some C compilers that can
produce code for those cpu's, they are normally programmed in assembler.