Nekar Xenos wrote:
> I recently found out that my LG KS360 supposedly has a 400MHz 
> proccessor.  IIRC I used to run Pov-Ray 3.1 on a 333Mhz machine in 1997.

Several printers have comparaible processors also. I haven't tried 
running a ray tracer yet, but I've run various fractal generators on 
printers. (You see, laser printers almost always accept PostScript 
input, and not many people realise this, but PostScript isn't a data 
format, it's a *programming language*.)

> My cellphone is a lot slower than the 33MHz Celeron I had to work on 
> back then, so I guess the culprit is RAM.

Not necesarily.

Maybe it's software inefficiency. Maybe it's running some kind of 
background task that you don't know about. Maybe it loads software from 
flash RAM which is really slow. All sorts of maybies.

> Which brings me to the 
> question: Do Cell-phones have RAM? If so, how can I tell how much?

If it's a von Neumann computer, it has primary storage. It's barely 
possible to design a computer without RAM. (Think about it; the phone's 
display framebuffer must be stored somewhere...)

Figuring out *how much* is an entirely different matter, however. ;-)

> Would it be possible to make a simple .jar ray-tracer to run on a 
> cell-phone?

I have no idea.

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