PIC Smalltalk does much of this. But it translates everything to assembler.
http://www.huv.com/uSeeker/smalltalk/pic.html

Karl


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr.
<jecel at merlintec.com>wrote:

> Tim Rowledge wrote:
> > On 29-11-2013, at 1:18 PM, Doug Jones wrote:
> >
> > >
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-microcontrollers
> >
> > >> The microcontroller is clocked at 168MHz and has 1MiB flash and
> 192KiB RAM,
> > >>  which is plenty for writing complex Python scripts.
> > Umm, not really. That's a bit tight, rather slow, and likely to
> disappoint. At least, for
> > anything we currently think of as Squeak. Now, a simple (it would have
> to be very
> > simple to save space) vm running a tiny Spoon based image *might* be
> possible
> > and even useful. The smallest machine I've ever run a "normal" Smalltalk
> system
> > on was the Active Book, which had a whole 1Mb or Ram, though that did
> have to
> > serve the OS, provide the screen buffer, and host a Fax storage filing
> system. And
> > it *was* only a 8MHz ARM2 cpu.
>
> It would probably be possible to squeeze Little Smalltalk into such a
> tiny computer. While it wouldn't do much, it would be comparable to this
> Python interpreter. It would also work just fine on a text terminal
> while non graphical Squeak is rather painful to use (I played around
> with two implementations). A framebuffer for 640x480 pixels with 256
> colors takes up 300KB, so having a VNC client on the PC side wouldn't
> help.
>
> I am always interested in finding out how small things can be. The
> original 1972 Dynabook paper proposed a machine with just 8K words of 16
> bits, but that was supposed to be a cache for a tape based virtual
> memory system and if the display were persistent and readable (like the
> plasma terminals from Plato) you could do without a frame buffer. The
> Alto was a 128KB machine, on the other hand, and this ARM
> microcontroller is was more powerful than it was.
>
> -- Jecel
>
> http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/Kay72a.pdf
>
>
>
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