Maker Builds a ChatGPT DOS Client for a 1984 Computer

Yeo Kheng Meng is a Singapore-based embedded security researcher — and a retrocomputing enthusiast. In 2019 Meng coded up his own Slack client for Windows 3.1, and ever since then, he’s wondered if it would be possible to target an even older platform. So Meng’s latest project was coding up a ChatGPT client that ran on that old familiar command-line interface from the 1980s: MS-DOS.

And he’s since adapted his DOS client to also interface with Hugging Face. Both ChatGPT and Hugging Face are generative AI-based services, both of which have gained immense popularity answering…