POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV performance : Re: POV performance Server Time
8 Aug 2024 01:16:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV performance  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 14 Jul 2001 23:28:33
Message: <3b510de1@news.povray.org>
Jamie Davison <jam### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote in message
news:MPG.15afe598f11fd32e989998@news.povray.org...
> > > > I take it you never did any raytracing on a 486 then?
> > >
> > > Actually, I did.  I think my scenes are becoming more complex and I'm
> > > playing with more parts of POV.
> >
> > Oh well, I thought there was the start of a You Know You Haven't Been
Ray Tracing Long Enough theme
> > going there.  Could have been interesting perhaps.
> >
> > Bob H., the proud owner of a 486 w/o coprocessor at first ray.
>
> I started with a 486SX/25 and 4Mb of RAM...
Ditto.  I remember my first upgrade, just switched the chip to a DX/33.
"Wow", I thought, "that math coprocessor really makes it fly!"  I also
remember the first time I saw triple digits on the PPS counter :)

...Chambers


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