What are the system requirements for running MetaCard?
MetaCard takes less memory than just about any other UNIX GUI development system, especially anything based on the UNIX/X11 Xt/Motif toolkit (MetaCard is a C++ application built on a C++ graphical toolkit). It performs adequately on 8 MB CISC systems. On RISC systems, 12-16 MB RAM is recommended. Disk space requirements are also small: the entire distribution requires less than 5MB, the largest piece of which is the demo stack (which is not required for development).