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Until you need to do anything modern that is

• agumonkey 9y ago
  lisp is modern
  • orf 9y ago
    So are its compilers and toolchains, would they fit in that amount of memory/disk?
    • agumonkey 9y ago
      People used lisp to do AI on Ataris, I think it'll do just fine.
      • deckard1 9y ago
        The lisp that runs on an Atari is hardly modern. And considering the AI Winter, I'm not sure you're selling us what you think you're selling us, regarding AI or lisp.
        • agumonkey 9y ago
          I read a thesis using CLISP on an average Atari, it already had a MOP IIRC.
• bdcravens 9y ago
  Of course in 2018 "modern" means a text editor that takes 1.5GB of RAM
  • orf 9y ago
    Yeah, I was tounge in cheek referencing this. But seriously, I doubt you could find many development tools written in the last 10-15 years that would work correctly on 64mb of RAM. Maybe vim/emacs, but would gcc? What about a huge git project?
    • agumonkey 9y ago
      In case this is not showing, I'm the kind of guy who cherish Chuck Moore and Forth.
    • bdcravens 9y ago
      Yeah, compilers might struggle, but I think for most developers, the browser would be the issue. (Back then I was doing a lot of ColdFusion and ASP development; I was able to run a dev server and editor and get work done somehow) A quick peek at Chrome's Task Manager shows the tab I'm writing this comment in is taking 225 MB.
      • agumonkey 9y ago
        You can't have tham on these machines. That said, Dillo with a dozen of tabs (wikipedia pages) uses 0 cpu and about 35MB.
  • jrs95 9y ago
    Wait, only 1.5GB? What kind of optimizations did you have to make to get it down that low? Mine is typically at 3-4GB...
• kazinator 9y ago
  Like walk into a water fountain while staring at a mobile device.