Python OS

[Karl A. Krueger]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> The idea is not completely insane, but you'd have to do a LOT of work,
> possibly including reimplementing the language.  You might look at
> some of the Lisp Machine publications for inspiration and an idea of
> what you'd be getting yourself into.

More recently, check out Movitz, which is a project implementing Lisp
directly on x86.

	http://www.common-lisp.net/project/movitz/

This isn't actually Lisp OS, though -- it's a runtime on which an OS
could be built.  A Python OS would require the same sort of layer,
presumably including a Python native-code compiler and hooks for
hardware access, so that a kernel could be written in Python.

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