It comes out soon and it is not worth it as far as I can tell.  It has
stuff for video editing and other useless junk for the most part.  I do
not know if they upgraded the mem model.  ME is a glorified version of
win98.  Microsoft wants more money, it knows stupid people will upgrade
to it.  Another reason it came about is because 2000 did not have gaming
support like it was supposed to.  

ryan constantine wrote:
> 
> isn't windows ME supposed to be the gamers' solution to an upgrade?
> it's not win2000 right?  anyone know when winME comes out?
> 
> Warp wrote:
> >
> > In povray.general Rick <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote:
> > : yes but there is win2000
> >
> >   Win2000 is more WinNT than Win9x. It's made more for the same uses as NT
> > is rather than for games and such. I think that many win9x games don't even
> > work in Win2000.
> >
> >   Of course Linux (and other free unix systems) support multiple processors
> > and still there is no multithreaded povray for them.
> >   PVM-pov exists no more, and even when it existed it didn't work with
> > radiosity.
> >   Multithreading has also many other problems. It's more problematic than
> > it may sound. I wrote an entry in the VFAQ about this.
> >
> >   Another thing is that since it's not made by the povteam, this version will
> > always be one step behind the official version.
> >
> > --
> > main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> > ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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