OK, no problem. I'm tempted to download the AMD SDK (a mere 28Mbytes - time
to get a faster modem then!) and have a look at the POV sources.

Thanks for responding,

Duncan

TonyB wrote in message <37e3b466@news.povray.org>...
>AFAIK, no support for any of this has been added. Apparently, it is because
>the FP that these processors (like the Pentium III) add is
single-precision,
>not double-precision like POV uses, so it doesn't benefit from it. I
believe
>I've heard some mention that small parts of POV might be able to be
>accelerated, but nothing substantial. Another alternative was to compile
>with a compiler that optimizes the compiled executable for these
processors.
>
>

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