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I technically got an LLM running locally on a 1998 iMac G3 with 32 MB of RAM
Hardware: • Stock iMac G3 Rev B (October 1998). 233 MHz PowerPC 750, 32 MB RAM, Mac OS 8.5. No upgrades. • Model: Andrej Karpathy’s 260K TinyStories (Llama 2 architecture). \~1 MB checkpoint. Toolchain: • Cross-compiled from a Mac mini using Retro68 (GCC for classic Mac OS → PEF binaries) • End
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I technically got an LLM running locally on a 1998 iMac G3 with 32 MB of RAM
REDDIT · r/LocalLLaMA · 7h ago · ⬆ 679 · 💬 48
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Hardware: • Stock iMac G3 Rev B (October 1998). 233 MHz PowerPC 750, 32 MB RAM, Mac OS 8.5. No upgrades. • Model: Andrej Karpathy’s 260K TinyStories (Llama 2 architecture). \~1 MB checkpoint. Toolchain: • Cross-compiled from a Mac mini using Retro68 (GCC for classic Mac OS → PEF binaries) • End