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From: Invisible
Subject: A young field
Date: 20 Jun 2008 09:03:33
Message: <485baaa5$1@news.povray.org>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7465115.stm

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From: Warp
Subject: Re: A young field
Date: 20 Jun 2008 09:24:30
Message: <485baf8e@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7465115.stm

  128 bytes of RAM in 1948.

  30 years later the popular Atari 2600 was published, which had a whopping
amount of 128 bytes of RAM.

  Not much of an improvement, I would say. :P

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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: A young field
Date: 20 Jun 2008 09:40:35
Message: <485bb353$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

>   128 bytes of RAM in 1948.
> 
>   30 years later the popular Atari 2600 was published, which had a whopping
> amount of 128 bytes of RAM.
> 
>   Not much of an improvement, I would say. :P

Size and Wattage difference, much? ;-)

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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: A young field
Date: 20 Jun 2008 12:15:32
Message: <485bd7a4@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7465115.stm
> 
>   128 bytes of RAM in 1948.

That included the program space.

>   30 years later the popular Atari 2600 was published, which had a whopping
> amount of 128 bytes of RAM.

No, it had >4K of RAM. It was just ROM RAM.

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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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   Check your feather pillows for holes
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From: Robert McGregor
Subject: Re: A young field
Date: 20 Jun 2008 23:10:01
Message: <web.485c70a1486382bbd1b3ad10@news.povray.org>
Invisible, do you actually USE POV-Ray for anything, or do you just come here to
stimulate our minds and torment us? Just curious...

I'd like to see some artwork of some sort :)


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: A young field
Date: 21 Jun 2008 04:15:18
Message: <485cb896$1@news.povray.org>
Robert McGregor wrote:
> Invisible, do you actually USE POV-Ray for anything, or do you just come here to
> stimulate our minds and torment us? Just curious...
> 
> I'd like to see some artwork of some sort :)

*checks*

Right. At this time, I do not actually have POV-Ray installed on this 
PC. (I recently reinstalled Windoze. There's a bunch of things I haven't 
put back yet.)

Most of my renderings are lame anyway. Have a wander through the IRTC 
and see if you can ring "slush candle" (or was it "ice candle"?) You'll 
see what I mean.

OTOH, I could enjoy rendering some more isosurfaces sometime soon...

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From: Robert McGregor
Subject: Re: A young field
Date: 21 Jun 2008 11:15:00
Message: <web.485d1a1e486382bbd1b3ad10@news.povray.org>
> Most of my renderings are lame anyway. Have a wander through the IRTC
> and see if you can ring "slush candle" (or was it "ice candle"?) You'll
> see what I mean.

Oh yeah, "Slush Candle" - I just looked it up and it's not lame. Now I remember
seeing it before - the "Fire and Ice" round; surprisingly I took first place
that round, even beating out the mighty Tek.

:)

"There is no spoon."


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: A young field
Date: 21 Jun 2008 14:12:32
Message: <485d4490$1@news.povray.org>
Robert McGregor wrote:
> Invisible, do you actually USE POV-Ray for anything, or do you just come here to
> stimulate our minds and torment us? Just curious...
> 
> I'd like to see some artwork of some sort :)
> 

We need to start a support group for POV-Ray addicts who don't seem to 
use POV-Ray much...

...Chambers


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: A young field
Date: 21 Jun 2008 15:02:21
Message: <485d503d$1@news.povray.org>
Chambers wrote:

> We need to start a support group for POV-Ray addicts who don't seem to 
> use POV-Ray much...

...and what the heck is the off-topic group for??

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From: Joel Yliluoma
Subject: Re: A young field
Date: 21 Jun 2008 19:09:49
Message: <slrng5r2hs.6c7.bisqwit@bisqwit.iki.fi>
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:15:31 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> No, it had >4K of RAM. It was just ROM RAM.

What's that?

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Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/


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