[slime-devel] Re: SLIME minimal hardware requirements

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Svein Ove Aas wrote:
> 
>> On 6/20/05, borisman at netmail.kg <borisman at 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.

I really should have responded publically in the 1st place, to save all 
the private responses about the OP's probably lack of funds, etc.  Points:

1) there's unlikely to be any graphics driver available for his laptop 
screen
2) the HD is probably not big enough to hold a Linux distro
3) wanting things to work won't make them work
4) being poor won't make them work
5) if work / income isn't available, then the OP would be better off 
trying to get someone to donate a better computer to him
6) if donations aren't possible, then he'll need to find a school or 
university computer to timeshare on or something.

(5) and (6) are better uses of time than trying to get Linux to work on 
this ancient laptop.


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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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