"borisman@netmail.kg" borisman@netmail.kg writes:
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 ???
^^
your '?' key is broken.
Anyway, this is what I get when I start emacs21/SLIME/clisp:
% ps axuwwS [...] gefla 5020 0.1 3.0 18980 15464 pts/1 S 16:00 0:17 emacs -rv -geometry 80x53-0+34 -fn -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1 gefla 5328 6.0 1.1 10712 5844 pts/0 Ss+ 19:51 0:07 /usr/lib/clisp/base/lisp.run -B /usr/lib/clisp -M /usr/lib/clisp/base/lispinit.mem -N /usr/share/locale [...]
That means emacs and clisp have VSZ larger than three times your total system memory capacity. Now I don't know how much of that memory is active(*), but I would suspect that it would be not much fun to run emacs and clisp on 8MB main memory. Emacs alone is nicknamed 'eight megabytes and constantly swapping'.
On the other hand, if you have patience and enough swapspace, I believe it should work.
Goodbyte, Gerd.
(*) is there an easy way to find out?