Importantly, using this architecture, a 7B parameter model only needs 1.38GB of storage. That may still make a 26-year-old Pentium II creak, but that's feather-light to modern hardware or even for ...

Using the first generation of Intel's Extended Server Memory Architecture, Pentium Pro CPUs address 64GB of memory rather than 4GB. The Pentium Pro was succeeded by the Pentium II. See Pentium.