Svein Ove Aas wrote:
On 6/20/05, borisman@netmail.kg borisman@netmail.kg wrote:
My name is Boris, and i have a question that google can not answer. I want to buy a very old notebook and i wonder will i be able to run slime on it. The notebook is Toshiba Saellite 2100CS with i486 DX 25 processor and 8 Mb ram. I want to install Dewbian Linux on it and work in text mode. (no XWindows). Will i be able use EMACS+SLIME+LISP on it ???
Slime itself should be no problem, nor should Emacs. Lisp, however, might be;
Ok; I wrote a much longer private e-mail to the OP, but I feel a need to summarize the main point here, for archival purposes. Linux in 8MB, on ancient graphics HW, with probably a small HD? This is ridiculous. The OP is dreaming. Prove that you can even run Linux first on such a worthless system, and then we'll talk about whether you can run anything on top of it. I was doing 16MB RAM on Linux in 1993, and it was uncomfortable by 1996. Time would be better spent on a minimum wage job to acquire old but more recent HW.