Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> People still talk about requiring a "Cray supercomputer" to perform a 
> given task. But it seems that the famous Cray-1 and Cray-2 were actually 
> far less powerful than a typical desktop today. (My dad saw me looking 
> at the Cray-1 and suggested using it just for POV-Ray. It seems to be 
> this would actually be a rather bad idea...) 

There was somewhere out there a Cray-2 (I think) you could log into via 
telnet and run apps. It had POV-Ray on it already, an older version (2.x 
or maybe 3.0) I ran a basic scene from the samples and was surprised at 
how long it actually took.

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