ChatGPT running on Windows 3.1. | Image: dialup.net
Someone has created a ChatGPT app for Windows 3.1 PCs. WinGPT brings a very basic version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT responses into an app that can run on an ancient 386 chip. It’s built by the same mysterious developer behind Windle, a Wordle clone for Microsoft’s Windows 3.1 operating system.
“I didn’t want my Gateway 4DX2-66 from 1993 to be left out of the AI revolution, so I built an AI Assistant for Windows 3.1, based on the OpenAI API,” says the developer in a Hacker News thread.
WinGPT is written in C using Microsoft’s standard Windows API and connects to OpenAI’s API server using TLS 1.3, so there’s no need for a separate modern PC. That was a particularly interesting part of getting this app running on Windows 3.1, alongside managing…
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By: Tom Warren
Title: WinGPT is a new ChatGPT app for your ancient Windows 3.1 PC
Sourced From: www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773756/wingpt-chat-gpt-app-windows-3-1
Published Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:56:21 +0000
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