Unlocking LLaMA 2 on MS‑DOS: A Retrocomputing Journey from 486 to Ryzen
1. Background on Meta’s LLaMA 2 1.1 The LLaMA Family Meta released LLaMA 2 as an open‑source foundation model family ranging from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters, intended for research and commercial use under a permissive license GitHub. These models use 16‑ or 32‑bit weights, requiring substantial memory (tens to hundreds of megabytes) and compute power,[ ► ]
What Was Your First Computer? The Day We Opened the Commodore 64
What Was Your First Computer? The Day We Opened the Commodore 64 It was a day of excitement, a moment of sheer childhood wonder. My father walked through the door, carrying something that would forever change the way my brother and I saw the world. It wasn’t just a box; it was a[ ► ]
