Low level python

[Ken Seehof]

Christian Tismer wrote:
> Ken Seehof didn't write, but actually Matthew Sherborne wrote:
> >>You guys are scaring me. I don't feel safe on the cutting edge!
> >>
> >>It actually doesn't look that hard using WinDriver (they even
> have device
> >>drivers written in VB!)
> >>
> >>One prob I have to convince the rent payers: It uses 2-3Mb of RAM when
> >>running! Who wants a 3Mb device driver?
> >>
> >>I remember that deeply embedded python recompile python
> dropping langauge
> >>features out. Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Yes but why.
>
> >>Anyone know how I can reduce the memory footprint of Python?
>
> Write all your device drivers and finally your system
> with this one Python kernel. Then you are small,
> compared to what we have nowadays.
>
> >>Matthew Sherborne
> >
> >

Then Ken wrote this:
> > Yeah.  You could write the operating system in python!  That way all the
> > python device drivers won't cost extra :-)
> >
> > But seriously, you should check out Gordon McMillan's work:
> > http://starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/distribute.html

Christian:
> I think this is serious. Who really needs an operating
> system, a file system and all of that?
> Forgetting about other applications, I really believe
> that one could write a pretty nice OS with Python,
> object oriented from the ground.
>
> This would be a real fun project,
> provided there were fun-ding. :-)
>
> --
> Christian Tismer             :^)   <mailto:tismer at tismer.com>

Watch those attributions ;-)  My fault, since I neglected to include
an attribution to Matthew on my previous post.

But I guess that could be inferred by the number of >>'s if
people read very carefully :-)

- Ken Seehof