Python CPU? (Re: Python OS)

[Paul Rubin]

Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> In one of my wilder daydreaming moments recently, I got to wondering
> what a machine designed from the ground up to run Python code might
> be like. I got a vision of a Python interpreter implemented in
> microcode, with a few extra bytecodes for low-level hardware access,
> with an OS written in Python running on top of it.

Been done already, more or less.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/lisp-faq/part2/section-20.html

http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html