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13 Aug 2024 23:21:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Best Platform ?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 26 Jul 1998 11:55:33
Message: <35bb4365.0@news.povray.org>
In article <35BB7796.9C7114DD@kjopen.globalnet.co.uk> , Nei### [at] kjopenglobalnetcouk 
wrote:

>So if you had a choice between;
>    a Sun Workstation (UltraSparc 333MHz, 3D Creater, etc.)
>        and
>    a PC (PII 400Mhz, etc)
>
>If price wasn't an issue, and the machine was to be used for purely
>graphics (rendering etc.), which would you choose ?

I would take the Sun because of the overall faster system and the much faster FPU, but
another important note: A 3D accelerator won't improve the speed of POV-Ray!


Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich
e-mail: Tho### [at] csicom


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