Python Operating System???

[Paul Rubin]

"Roose" <b at b.b> writes:
> My point was that you can't do a lot of hardware interface programming in
> pure Python -- there would be so much non-trivial code in C that it would be
> hard to call it a Python OS.

Why do you say that?  Is the same thing not true of C, where you need
some assembly code at the lowest levels?  Because Linux has some
assembly code, would you say that it's not written in C?

> So this basically proves my point -- that you need different hardware
> altogether in order to make an OS in a high level language like Lisp or
> Python.

It doesn't prove anything of the sort.  The Lisp hardware was needed
for performance reasons, back in the day.