Python on a USB storage device?

[P at draigBrady.com]

Heiko Wundram wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 19:27, Kevin Altis wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone have experience running Python from a USB storage device?
> 
> 
> I don't have experience running Python from an USB storage device, but
> I've been using a 1GB USB-Stick to carry around a Knoppix distribution
> with me, for those PCs which can boot from USB and don't have a CD-ROM
> drive (there are quite a few where I work as sys-admin). USB works well
> here, so I guess if you use USB to carry around a Python installation,
> this should work well too.
> 
> USB 2.0 doesn't matter, as the USB-sticks I know of don't even support
> it (the normal transmission speed of those sticks is an average 5 MB/s,
> and that's way below USB 1.1 max speed of 11 MB/s).

Careful, see http://www.pixelbeat.org/speeds
USB 2.0 = 60  MB/s
USB 1.1 = 1.5 MB/s

You can get flash chips now that do 6MB/s

Pádraig.