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On 13.03.12 15:13, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Note that if you're going to
> program in Ada on such a machine, you might find that 256 MiB
> of RAM is very limited. You probably don't want gnat-gps or emacs
> as your IDE on such a machine.
> 

I had thought that 256 MiB is plenty of RAM for editing text
and running a compiler.  Editing without a "GUI" using a capable
text editor, including Emacs, should well be possible.

256 MiB is about the amount of RAM that were supposedly necessary
to _translate_ a compiler for some O-O language in the early 1990s.
But I am sure I was happily running Editors, including Emacs,
in a lot less than that. In fact, I didn't know anyone who had
access to a computer with such an amount of RAM.

Running OS/2 on a PCs equipped with that "limited" amount of RAM
went rather smoothly, or is my memory blurred?