Mike Blakely wrote:
> 
> To make this card is not technically challenging.

Well, getting 96Gigs of RAM onto a PCI card will be technically
challenging for several years.

> I've been discussing this with some fellow engineers for 4 years now.
> The only issue is cost, which is related to quantity.

Have you identified the most common calculations that are done by
POV-Ray in the course of a render?

> How many people do you think would want this and how much would they
> be willing to pay?

On a budget of $10000 I can buy an Athlon XP render farm that will
enable me to render a feature-length Rusty animation in about six
months (and that includes making frames that would take 7.5 hours to
render on my current machine).

Regards,
John

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