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! :)

I can beat that. I first ran POV on an 8 MHz ARM2 processor in an old Acorn
Archimedes... (which many of you have probably never heard of!). My first
speed upgrade would have been the 33MHz ARM6 in the (slightly) newer Acorn
RiscPC. Neither machine had a co-processor, floating-point calculations
were by software emulation only. Test renders ran like continental drift...
:)

Bill

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