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; some implementations, such as sbcl/cmucl, apparently consume vast amounts of memory. I haven't tried running either on a computer where memory is genuinely limited, but I suggest trying clisp first; others may be aware of even lower-footprint implementations.
It is also possible to run Lisp on a separate machine from the one running Emacs; assuming your network connection is stable, this is a very good option.