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Re:Someone got an LLM running on a Commodore 64 from 1982, a... by aaronharnly on Sunday May 18, 2025 @07:57PM (#44025249)
And also not exactly a Commodore 64 is it, since it requires an addon with 30x the RAM. Still very cool and impressive though!
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Re:Someone got an LLM running on a Commodore 64 from 1982, a... by actionfromafar on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @08:02AM (#44050538)
It's a borderline thing. The official Commodore REU only supported 8x the RAM. But you could modify it yourself to 32x. Creative Micro Design also had the third party 1750 REU which supported 32x RAM. (2 megabytes.)

So it is somewhat period accurate, albeit very expensive at the time.

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Re:Someone got an LLM running on a Commodore 64 from 1982, a... by robertlagrant on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @09:01AM (#44051005)
Imagine if someone had run that LLM on that hardware in the 1980s, though. Incredible!

(Probably couldn't have trained the model, but still.)

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Re:Someone got an LLM running on a Commodore 64 from 1982, a... by bunchofnumbers on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @09:10AM (#44051075)
You'd have needed a ZX Spectrum for that!
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