Chambers <bdc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Oh come on, I originally ran POV on a 486 with NO math coprocessor!
> Think of that - all that double precision math being emulated by the
> integer units!  IIRC, it would draw an RSOCP at ~20-30 pps.  Imagine how
> excited I was when I got my first 486 DX, and saw POV running at speeds
> of 100pps or more! :)

486? You were lucky to have a 486! We used to do the calculations by
counting on our fingers, with one arm tied behind our backs and no toes.
Half the fingers were missing, with someone playing old Monty Python
sketches to distract us!

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe
ya.

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