Pythoniac: Thoughts on a hardware Python processor

[William Park]

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... :-)

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