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Conventional wisdom states that running LLMs locally will require computers with high performance specifications especially GPUs with lots of VRAM. But is this actually true? Thank…

If I were to tell you a PC has a floppy drive, optical drive, Sound Blaster card, serial, parallel and PS/2 ports running DOS, you would think I’m referring to a machine from the 1…

I did an experiment on a relatively modern 2020 Thinkpad and found that it can still run DOS. Modern features like Thunderbolt, 2.5 Gig Ethernet and Sound Blaster compatibility ove…

I used Enhanced Doskey. http://paulhoule.com/doskey/

They have already written an article about it :) https://hackaday.com/2023/09/10/upgraded-graphics-gremlin-ad...

With the recent attention on ChatGPT and OpenAI’s release of their APIs, many developers have developed clients for modern platforms to talk to this super smart AI chatbot. However…

I updated my blog post to include a memory and disk usage comparison :)

The printf is just for example code. In actual fact, I'll have to copy the data to a char array to be sent to display in the listbox.

VC++ 1.52 has an internal text editor but nowhere near the capabilities of Visual Studio Code or any modern text editors. I also use Git and sourcetree and they won't run on Win 2K…

If someone has got a working TLS 1.2 on such an old OS, I'll like to know too. Because I certainly haven't saw any example. I think the work to get TLS 1.2 working will certainly d…

I felt it was enough for me. :) https://api.slack.com/

Win 3.1 apps can also access memory in 64K segments which I only use 1 to hold the humongous HTTP+JSON reply from Slack. Wikipedia says "However, no single process can use more tha…

You are correct. My 390E has 384MB of RAM but only 256MB is accessible by Win 3.1. An earlier blog post shows this http://yeokhengmeng.com/2016/09/windows-for-workgroups-3-11-...

Hey thanks for the tips. Let me adjust the blog post to mention this point

Hmm. Borland and Watcom compilers came up in my research. Will look into them for help next time!

Thanks for raising this to me!

Oh I did not know about this! I just based my understanding from the official Microsoft documentation. Thanks!

Trumpet Winsock is not by Microsoft :P