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> > written in Macintosh Common Lisp needed 20 MB RAM > At the time when computers had 32/64 MB of RAM. That's non sequitur. Lets quote the entire context: >
by throwaway1X2 9y ago
> > written in Macintosh Common Lisp needed 20 MB RAM
> At the time when computers had 32/64 MB of RAM.
That's non sequitur. Lets quote the entire context:
> the Dylan IDE written in Macintosh Common Lisp needed 20 MB RAM
How much RAM other IDEs used at the time?
- kazinator 9y agoThat's less memory than Firefox will leak between the time I end the last word of this sentence and type the punctuating period.
- FrozenVoid 9y ago>That's non sequitur. At the time Dylan IDE existed it regularly consumed 3/4 of all RAM. So bragging about it being only 20MB is like bragging your app only consumes 12GB of RAM today.
- lispm 9y agoThat's the point. Today the same Lisp IDE would not need 12GB and would nicely run on a Raspberry Pi.
- FrozenVoid 9y agoOnly If you're fine with using twenty year old software and port it to modern hardware such as raspberry PI.