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Georg Bauhaus 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.  Editing without a "GUI" using a capable
> text editor, including Emacs, should well be possible.

I had the impression that recent gcc versions are quite memory hungry (when 
doing optimization?). Also particularly gnat when compiling generics. I 
might be wrong though.

> 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?