posted 21 years ago
I've run an IDE in 6MB (that's *6*, not *64*) of RAM, but that was for C and on an Amiga 4000, which was a non-virtual memory machine whose OS was a lot more memory-efficient than Linux or Windows. Java, however, is a pig and I don't recommend running an IDE on less than an 600MHz CPU or 256MB of RAM. On my 128MB 380MHz laptop, it's excruciating.
The closest I can get to 64 MB Java is that I run Emacs with jde on a 96MB P200, Red Hat Linux 7.2. That's OK for editing. But debugging will cause it to page heavily.
[ February 25, 2003: Message edited by: Tim Holloway ]
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.