On Fri 19 Sep 2014 15:47, Jakob Eriksson wrote: > On September 19, 2014 at 3:18 PM Joe Bogner <joebog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This might be off base, but is it within the realm of possibility to > > run PilMCU on a raspberry pi now or in the future? That's an accessible > > piece of hardware that many people already have (myself included). These > > people may also be willing to fund the work > > Raspi runs linux, so you can run PicoLisp on it right now. PilMCU is about > new hardware chips. > You could of course go the middle way, that could attract some attention: > port PicoLisp to bare Raspberry Pi hardware. Also an interesting prospect. > But the ARM cpu in the pi is not a natural fit, it is not 64 bit, only 32. > So it would be more of a promo thing. But very cool in its own right.
Strange this came up just now - I am a long-time stalker on the mailing list, and had been brewing the idea for a long time to get the ball rolling for a Picolisp equivalent of this: http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/movitz.html and ultimately perhaps one day a picolisp-based kernel, and maybe even a predominantly picolisp-OS (...I like to dream big). I am for sure much more excited about this latest picolisp-machine announcement though (LISP machines are back! Their time has come! Mwahahahaha!), but there is probably still a good reason to also go the "middle way" too, for the reasons already mentioned - to gain attention and to do meaningful performance comparisons to existing software. FWIW: I am totally up for contributing to PilMCU, RasPicolisp or Picolix86_64p in any way that I can. Count me in. -- Rowan Thorpe PGP fingerprint: BB0A 0787 C0EE BDD8 7F97 3D30 49F2 13A5 265D CCBD ---- "There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem." - Harold Stephens -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
