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Thinking Different, Thinking Slowly: LLMs on a PowerPC Mac

18 pointsby tambourine_manabout 2 months ago

2 comments

trollbridgeabout 2 months ago
This is neat. Jason Stevens did the same thing in a 1990s-contemporary system… with a beta OS from the early 90s… on a 286 chassis upgraded to a 16-bit bus version of a 486:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;virtuallyfun.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;happy-2025&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;virtuallyfun.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;happy-2025&#x2F;</a><p>Took hours to generate a paragraph of text. Be sure to turn up audio to enjoy hearing the hard disk clunking away.
trbutlerabout 2 months ago
Ah, one of my favorite computers ever. Totally impractical, but it makes me smile anyway.