POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Anyone know about NT? : Re: Anyone know about NT? Server Time
14 Aug 2024 03:19:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Anyone know about NT?  
From: Andrew McDavid
Date: 4 Jun 1998 20:06:46
Message: <35773696.877EE3AD@iname.com>
povray.org admin team wrote:
> 
> Andrew McDavid <tot### [at] inamecom> wrote:
> 
> >povray.org admin team wrote:
> >>
> >> Andrew M <tot### [at] inamecom> wrote:
> >>
> >> >How about the fact that it costs ~200 dollars, OEM.
> >>
> >> I was going to mention that myself. This is the primary reason why I had to
> >> choose not to make the new POVWIN rendering engine an NT-only service. Many of
> >> our users simply can't afford the high cost of NT.
> >
> >You mean so there is no windows 95/98 verson?  What about ports to other
> >OSes? $200 buys a hefty amount of processing power, like it could buy a
> >moniterless K6 200, maybe even a 233 or 266, for a renderfarm. Or it
> >could upgrade me to K6 300 plus 30 bucks to spare.
> 
> Where was it stated that there is no 95/98 version ?
	You said you decided _not_ to make it an NT service.  I was just
wondering if that meant, if you had decided otherwise, there wouldn't
have been a 95/98 verson?

Andrew M


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