POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Computers are fast : Re: Computers are fast Server Time
5 Sep 2024 11:21:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Computers are fast  
From: Invisible
Date: 16 Nov 2009 04:52:57
Message: <4b0120f9@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:

> He too. Altho I never did much graphics on the TRS-80, I do remember 
> letting Mandelbrots run overnight on my Amiga. (Or was that still the 
> Atari at that point? I don't even remember.)  Whatever, it was pretty 
> amazing at the time. :-)

Heh. On a 486SX, you can *watch* FractInt draw the individual pixels 
while plotting, say, the lambda sin fractal. I would never have been 
able to render a 48 megapixel image on such a machine!


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