The memory accesses being nicely arranged is kinda why the focus has moved to AI in recent years. Moores law is that much easier to keep going if parallelization increases, such as with GPUs and SIMD on CPUs. That extra Silicon needs to be made productive somehow to be justified.

Interesting, that article says llama.c not llama.cpp. I actually got llama.cpp going on a G4 awhile back, I guess I should write that up.

Edit - I just can’t read, original article was llama.c

Gotta push my powerpc llama.cpp fork now for sure!

Apple didn't design the PowerPC or make custom variances. Motorola and IBM did it. Especially Altivec was added by Motorola, and IBM didn't like to add it to their PowerPC CPUs when Apple asked for help, when Motorola had the 500 MHz glitch bug back in the day.

There is a nice coverage on this topic at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tld91M_bcEI (Why the Original Apple Silicon Failed)

Apple was the "A" in the AIM alliance that created PowerPC, together with IBM and Motorola. https://wiki.preterhuman.net/The_Somerset_Design_Center

Now, try https://www.winuae.net/

Im compelled to humblebrag my Sgi at this point … https://youtu.be/mzI8U7S0FDc?si=D70WbAak7_k7Ebrr

Yes, you should definitely write that up and post it:)

That generation of Apple laptops was my tech awakening. I always thought of computers as tools just for office work and nothing I'd ever want to use. But one day I sat down in front of a G4 iBook and was like, man, this thing is beautiful. And it's pretty fun to use. I got an iMac a couple weeks after that and it set me on my programming career.

And just looking at that picture in the article, that keyboard is beautiful. Apple truly had some incredible design sense. It's very unfortunate how rough their design decisions have been the past few years.

> though modern web-browsing is a challenge. (Maybe one that somebody has solved, I haven't dug at all.)

The usual solution is to run the real browser somewhere else and remote into it, eg. https://github.com/tenox7/wrp or https://www.brow.sh/