Remembers me ...

the Archimedes

-even with a Coprozessor & ARM 3 -

was that time 5-10 times slower in

Floating Point then even a Pentium 100.

I had that all in my house so I could make a

comparisson. I guess it was with POV-Ray that time, or whatever was in use.

There was a fast raytracing software avaible, which tried to use "non-fp"
however it was "tricked", the picture were not really "ray-traced".

I guess i have a friend who has all those ald archimedes (& Amiga) stuff
from me.

I don't see even the slightest advantage currently. Do they plan to make a
new RiscOS-Desktop PC with the new Intel-ARM Prozesor ?

Then a port should be avaiable soon.

However AMIGA OS was in many things (take aside the builtin BBC-Basic)
better then the Risc-OS. Real Multi-Tasking, better File-System, Screen &
Windows. Even the PC nowadays does not have the "Screens" concept ...

Yeah .. old times.
--Theo

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