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16 Apr 2024 05:18:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I got a new 64bit computer!  
From: Mr
Date: 7 Oct 2020 15:00:00
Message: <web.5f7e0fbbd6c2bbb36adeaecb0@news.povray.org>
"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> The first thing I did is put POV 3.7 on it. My first test was 10 times faster
> than my old computer.
>
>  My old computer was dual core running winXp. The new computer is quad core and
> runs win10. So you see I haven't upgraded in a long time.
>
>  I'm so happy I just had to tell ya all about it!
>
>  I'm not as happy with win10, yet. It relies on the internet to much & the
> cloud. It has a bunch of crap on it that I'm going to get rid of. The windows
> programs I wrote to help with POV will run on win10. But the help files on most
> of them won't. I'll need to rewrite them into html files then use the brower.
>
>  The computer itself is fantastic, after I added a 4 Tara bite hard drive. I
> have enough room to put twice the data on it that the Xp has. It also has 8 gig
> of memory. So shouldn't worry about having POV use a hard drive as memory. The
> old computer had a gig of memory and I rarely topped that.
>
>  Now the fun part... I got to get it all set up to do my POV thing. With over 20
> years with POV there is a lot to go though. I need to organize it, drop things
> I'll never use again(I still have 3.1 bat files),and get ready for POV 4.
>
> Have Fun! I know I will!

Sounds like you'll find a few lost toys buried in your garden ! :-)


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