Python OS

Leif B. Kristensen junkmail at solumslekt.org
Fri Apr 16 17:37:11 EDT 2004


A Evans rose up and spake:

> My questions would then be, is Python capable of creating an OS from
> scratch and if so would it be plausible if possible

Apart from the somewhat insane idea of building yet another OS, you
should consider Niklaus Wirth's seminal ideas regarding Oberon, an
object-oriented OS. The freshest link I found right now after a very
cursory search on Google is this:

http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/

Why hasn't Wirth endorsed Python? Maybe the answer is here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-May/105946.html

regards,
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Leif Biberg Kristensen
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