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Thinking Different, Thinking Slowly: LLMs on a PowerPC Mac

by tambourine_man on 3/24/25, 5:34 PM with 2 comments

• by trollbridge on 3/24/25, 7:58 PM

  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:

  https://virtuallyfun.com/2025/01/02/happy-2025/

  Took hours to generate a paragraph of text. Be sure to turn up audio to enjoy hearing the hard disk clunking away.

• by trbutler on 3/29/25, 3:22 AM

  Ah, one of my favorite computers ever. Totally impractical, but it makes me smile anyway.