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7 Aug 2024 23:23:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Isn't it time for a new pov benchmark?  
From: Ken
Date: 20 Aug 2001 10:14:54
Message: <3B811BF8.18E1EF46@pacbell.net>
Adrien Beau wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > There are still people running machines with much less
> > than 128 megs and even those people with 128 megs installed have
> > the OS using up much of those resources.
> 
> Then they have a problem. They shouldn't use an OS that eats
> the vast majority of the installed RAM. Either they use an OS
> that eats less memory, or intall more memory.

The vast majority of POV-Ray users are also Windows users. Windows
notoriously uses quite a bit of the system memory resources. Good
or bad this is a fact that must be considered.

-- 
Ken Tyler


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