Hackaday

How Usable Is Windows 98 In 2026?

With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects of metastasizing ‘AI’ – more people than ...
Ars Technica

Desktop Survivors 98 is more than just a retro Windows nostalgia trip

Jeez, even with the "late '90s Windows machine" conceit, you still can't escape google chrome. I have 4: Firefox, KeePass, Obsidian, and Lutris. If I don't use it daily, it's easier to just hit ...
Windows Central

Microsoft's Windows 98 can run Meta's Llama AI model on just 128MB of RAM: "We could have been talking to our computers for 30 years now."

Marc Andreessen says an experiment with Windows 98 supported Meta's Llama AI model on a 26-year-old PC. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
Hackaday

Modern AI On Vintage Hardware: LLama 2 Runs On Windows 98

[EXO Labs] demonstrated something pretty striking: a modified version of Llama 2 (a large language model) that runs on Windows 98. Why? Because when it comes to personal computing, if something can ...