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Comment on Macintosh System 7 Ported To x86 With LLM Help by James B. Zatopa
['Lewin Day', 'James B. Zatopa']
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You can use large language models for all sorts of things these days, from writing terrible college papers to bungling legal cases.
Or, you can employ them to more interesting ends, such as porting Macintosh System 7 to the x86 architecture, like [Kelsi Davis] did.
These 16-bit/32-bit CPUs were plenty capable for the time, but the platform ultimately didn’t have the same expansive future as Intel’s illustrious x86 architecture that underpinned rival IBM-compatible machines.
[Kelsi Davis] decided to port the Macintosh System 7 OS to run on native x86 hardware, which would be challenging enough with full access to the source code.
However, she instead performed this task by analyzing and reverse engineering the System 7 binaries with the aid of Ghidra and a large language model.