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> > written in Macintosh Common Lisp needed 20 MB RAM

> At the time when computers had 32/64 MB of RAM.

That's non sequitur. Lets quote the entire context:

> the Dylan IDE written in Macintosh Common Lisp needed 20 MB RAM

How much RAM other IDEs used at the time?

That's less memory than Firefox will leak between the time I end the last word of this sentence and type the punctuating period.

>That's non sequitur. At the time Dylan IDE existed it regularly consumed 3/4 of all RAM. So bragging about it being only 20MB is like bragging your app only consumes 12GB of RAM today.

That's the point. Today the same Lisp IDE would not need 12GB and would nicely run on a Raspberry Pi.

Only If you're fine with using twenty year old software and port it to modern hardware such as raspberry PI.

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