[plt-scheme] DrScheme on computers with limited RAM

From: Jaime Vargas (jev at mac.com)
Date: Fri Sep 7 21:06:30 EDT 2007

I have some spare RAM sitting around. If you can find what type of  
RAM he needs, I will be glad to donate him the part.

-- Jaime

On Sep 7, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:

> I should have mentioned that this is a student who qualifies for free
> lunch, so I don't want to suggest the extra RAM option unless  
> there's no
> cheaper way to do it.
>
> Todd
>
> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 14:06 -0400, Matthew Jadud wrote:
>> Hi Todd,
>>
>> I don't know how hard things are for your student (financially), but
>> RAM for PCs is pretty cheap.
>>
>> http://www.pricewatch.com/memory/
>>
>> $30-60 will probably put 512MB of RAM into their PC (unless its a
>> laptop), which seems to me to be a reasonably priced solution to
>> making their whole machine worlds more usable.
>>
>> Anyway. That may seem like a trollish response in a way, but I  
>> thought
>> I'd mention it just the same.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> M
>>
>>
>> On 9/7/07, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at mac.com> wrote:
>>> I have a student who only has 128MB of RAM on his home machine  
>>> and he
>>> says that DrScheme (not surprisingly) dies pretty often.
>>>
>>> Is there anything he could do to use less memory?
>>>
>>> Todd
>>>
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