From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-06T00:38:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] similar resources for Lisp/Scheme

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:43:12PM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
>> I seem to recall reading somewhere that GNU CLISP runs in something
>> absurd like 16MB of RAM -- a simply astoundingly small amount of memory.
>> That's a pretty neat trick for an ANSI standard implementation of pretty
>> much anything.
> 
> I misremembered.  It wasn't that it ran on a computer with 16MB (or
> whatever) of RAM, but that it required only 2MB of free RAM to run.  Mea
> culpa.
> 
At one time, SoftWarehouse, creators of Derive and now part of Texas
Instruments, sold a DOS Lisp that fit in 640K. :) For all I know, the
latest versions of Windows Derive may still be built on top of it. :)