David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
> On 2017-11-23 11:15 AM, Stephen wrote:
> > BTW I noticed that you write POVRay, I write it as PovRay and the
> > program itself is titled POV-Ray. I've always wondered if anyone gets
> > irked at the different spellings.
>
>
> I should be spelling it POV-Ray.  In the early days, there was some
> discussion of the spelling.  I remembered that some people were calling
> it PVRay.

Wow, that rekindles an old memory. The first time I ever used POV-Ray was a
version ported to RISCOS on the old Acorn computers - called PVRay. It would
have been early 90s I think. There were several free raytracers doing the rounds
at the time, and the old PVRay was by far the most capable :)

Within a year or so of that, someone ported and distributed v3.0, which then had
the extra 'o'...

Bill

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