Python for small systems (ucLinux)
John La Rooy
nospampls.jlr at doctor.com
Thu Feb 13 16:47:41 EST 2003
On 12 Feb 2003 16:00:11 GMT
grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) wrote:
> In article <b2djc9$vdp$1 at news.netpower.no>, David Brown wrote:
>
> > I am going to be writing an application that will run on a
> > ucLinux system. It works mostly like a real Linux system
> > (except there is no MMU, meaning no virtual memory and no
> > protection between process' memory areas), but is a lot more
> > limited in resources compared to most Linux systems - perhaps 4
> > MB Flash and 8 MB Ram in total. Does anyone know of projects
> > using python in such limited systems?
>
> Once upon a time, there was a project called "deeply embedded
> python" that was running Python on an embedded system (I don't
> think there was any OS, but I don't recall). It ran in
> something like a few hundred KB of memory.
>
> Here's a mailing list posting about it:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/1999-August/000157.html
>
> The URL in that posting doesn't work anymore, so it may take
> some detective work to dig up more info.
>
> Somebody else has already pointed you towards the Palm stuff.
> That's probably more current.
>
> --
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Try this link
http://web.archive.org/web/20011005093720/www.abo.fi/~iporres/python/
Looks like the project might be dead though. Pity :(
John
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