POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : Non-standard compile of POV-Ray : Re: Non-standard compile of POV-Ray Server Time
29 Jul 2024 08:20:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Non-standard compile of POV-Ray  
From: Matthew Mc Clement
Date: 22 Apr 1998 02:24:16
Message: <353D8D10.5BF016F9@global.net.uk>
povray.org admin team wrote:
> 
> "Lloyd J Robinson, Jr" <ljr### [at] sbscorpcom> wrote:
> 
> >IIRC, the Apple II series was a 8 bit machine with about 48K of ram
> >installed. It will take a long time to produce an image using that system,
> >assuming that you can get the code small enough to fit in memory.
> 
> Well, he could always use the tape drive for swap :) :) :)

Ah, but you see, tape is not a random access device, and besides would'nt he have to
manually rewind and play the tape? Should be fun, and much more exciting than watching
paint dry(see other post...). But in all seriousness, if he really wanted to have a
second


Cheers, Matthew

P.S. Maybe he's a uni student and some weird and twisted professor decided to make the
class write demo's for the Apple II...just a thought.


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