[HN Gopher] MicroPython on M68k Mac
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MicroPython on M68k Mac
Author : zdw
Score : 40 points
Date : 2025-07-01 16:50 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| fredoralive wrote:
| Although you could get Python 1.x for 68k Macs already:
| https://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/macpython-older.htm...
| (the "Even older" bit mentions that 1.5.2 is the last 68k
| version).
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| Admittedly, I think this Micropython port is seemingly more
| targeting a Mac Plus, whilst I suspect the original Mac Python
| would probably prefer a Quadra (or a PowerMac).
| nxobject wrote:
| One detail that I'd be interested to see are startup times for
| the MicroPython environment. Having compiled both Lua and Duktape
| (an embedded friendly ES7 runtime) for a Macintosh Classic,
| morally a Plus, I regularly got startup times of up to a minute -
| I think most of it due to the sheer size of the resulting
| binaries and standard libraries.
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