260K-param LLM running on an emulated 90s CPU inside an 18-year-old RTOS
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In three linesDeveloper ran a 260K-param LLM (llama2.c/stories260K) on a JavaScript emulator of a 1990s Motorola 68K CPU, itself running inside a 2008 RTOS. INT8 quantization + lookup tables for RoPE and inverse square root (Quake) to bypass missing FPU. Generation: 2-4 seconds/token.Read source
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