Pythoniac: Thoughts on a hardware Python processor

[David LeBlanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Gustavo Cordova
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 12:18
> To: William Park; python-list at python.org
> Subject: RE: Pythoniac: Thoughts on a hardware Python processor
>
>
> >
> > Christopher Saunter <Christopher.Saunter at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I have seen the occasional post about creating a specific
> > > hardware 'Python Processor', that could then be built and
> > > used in programmable logic or the like (Valves, relays,
> > > core memory - Pythoniac ;-) - in other words, create
> > > a processor that executes Python bytecode directly.  There would be
> > > various different reasons for doing this (the 'neat' factor etc...)
> >
> > The only route that has any chance of success is
> >     Python -> Forth -> stack engine
> > which leverage works that has already gone into Forth area.
> > But, my days of hand assembling 68000 or programming HP calculators
> > are long gone... :-)
> >
>
> Ahh! Thanks for posting this; I was thinking of the same thing,
> about Chuck Moore's forth chips and all that, but I didn't want
> to post anything because I've already posted some Forth comments
> and received no replies.
>
> :-)
>
> -gus
>

Ahh! Haven't you heard? Forth came in Fifth and the Forth chip is dead. In
fact I don't think anyone is still offering a stack based computer (only HP
did AFAIK, the HP 3000).

Dave LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA