pavium wrote:
> It looks like I'll have to invest in some hardware which will run POVRay
> once more. I have actually tried running POVRay on a 75MHz Pentium under
> OpenBSD with no graphics capability. It actually generated 25x80 ASCII text
> images onscreen while saving GIF files to disk. It was fascinating to watch
> but only marginally faster than watching grass grow.


Oh come on, I originally ran POV on a 486 with NO math coprocessor! 
Think of that - all that double precision math being emulated by the 
integer units!  IIRC, it would draw an RSOCP at ~20-30 pps.  Imagine how 
excited I was when I got my first 486 DX, and saw POV running at speeds 
of 100pps or more! :)

...Chambers

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