Posted on 06/28/2023 6:43:02 AM PDT by Salman
An anonymous developer has created a ChatGPT client for Windows 3.1, because some people like to keep one foot firmly in the past even as they explore the future.
WinGPT was written in C, using the standard Windows API and compiled with Open Watcom v2. It runs on any 16-bit or 32-bit version of Windows from Windows 3.1 onward, so should get you all the way from Windows 95 to Windows 7 – including Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows XP.
One proviso is that it won't run without Winsock – the dialup-era essential that teaches Windows how to speak TCP/IP.
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In a Hacker News thread about the app, a commenter suggested "Maybe you could incorporate it into a version of MS Office from that era as well. You could even give it an anthropomorphized personality embodied by a skeuomorphic element of IRL office supplies more common in that era, like a rubber band … or … a … paperclip."
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Does dial-up work with a smartphone ? LOL
Run one on a 20 Mhz 65C02 and Bender (Futurama) might in born (the show specified his CPU),
You: What is the best way identify a plant.
WinGPT: Look it up in your encyclopedia. If you don’t have one, get in your car and drive to the library.
He went barebones writing in C with win32 API. Visual C++ can generate most of the skeleton code automatically
Why would you do that‽
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should!
“Does dial-up work with a smartphone ? LOL”
It can but I doubt there would be anyone on the other end.
I’m waiting for a version for my Trash-80.
My FRiends call me nully, you may call me Ian.
I’m sick of hearing about the dangers of AI.
It really isn’t “AI” like in science fiction. It is not self-aware, it’s just a very complex program, but it is still someone’s code.
I liked the original Windows. Could still easily bring up the code and adjust things that way, and some times just to use the old DOS directly.
You can’t know that you can until you try. That’s why.
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