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On Mar 13, 4:36=A0pm, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> 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. =A0Editing 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?

I intend no development on the Pi. Just a little compilation and
execution. In fact if I can get away with no compilation on the pi , I
will be even happier.