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A 2005 Power Mac G5 running Claude Code natively on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard — full agentic coding loop, direct TLS 1.2 to the Anthropic API, no proxy.
Twelve years of volunteer work, one open hardware PowerPC board, and the community that refused to quit. The Power Progress Community story.
What happens when you try to build a modern JavaScript runtime on a big-endian PowerPC Mac from 2005? A cascade of patches, linker nightmares, and one very stubborn V8 engine.
A custom Rust-to-PowerPC compiler written in C, targeting Mac OS X Tiger. It runs on real G4 hardware, has a working borrow checker with NLL, generates AltiVec SIMD code, and implements async/await using the select() syscall. The endgame? Firefox on your 2005 Power Mac.