Warp wrote:

>> The point is: the AMD is thousands 
>> of times faster, yet it doesn't feel a thousand times faster because the 
>> OS is a thousand times more bloated.
> 
>   Try running povray in both systems and then repeat that.

As somebody who has personally tried this: Yeah, the difference is 
pretty noticable. (!)

You know that example scene what shows all the different textures? It 
took about an hour to render on my 20 MHz Amiga (with the FPU add-on) at 
320x240 with no AA. My current machine can render it in mere *seconds* 
at vastly higher settings.

Until I saw this, I thought the MHz numbers on PCs were lying, because 
every PC I ever used was so much "slower" than my Amiga. But running 
POV-Ray proved otherwise...

PS. Is AmigaOS still a supported platform? It used to be... 0;-)

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