In comp.lang.lisp Rainer Joswig <joswig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article
> <e67cd980-fdd3-4565-9777-6add70a0b7e0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> pg <penang@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
[...]
> > The computers are all donated stuffs, so they are not really fast, nor
> > powerful. With 256MB of RAM each, I doubt they can run any fancy
> > programs.
[...]
> You might also want to ask comp.lang.scheme . There are
> useful Scheme systems (like DrScheme) for education that will run on
> smaller computers quite well.
Not to critique the DrScheme environment on other grounds, but a few years
ago, on my old Linux laptop, which had only 128MB of memory, the DrScheme
environment was pretty much unusable (swapped like crazy). The DrScheme
web site (http://www.drscheme.org/)
says:
"The latest version of DrScheme is useful with at least 256MB of RAM in
your computer, and installing requires roughly 60MB of disk space."
Who knows, maybe it runs perfectly with just 256MB, but I know that it
certainly didn't run nicely with 128MB. I would recommend trying it on a
256MB machine having 1-2 memory hog applications like a browser running in
the background (which is what many would probably be doing anyway) before
going with DrScheme.
-Vesa Karvonen
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