In povray.general lavender <lav### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
: Computers have been networked not for a long time. The internet is almost 
: every where. If programs are not written for networks they might as well 
: stay in dos.

  Not true. Multitasking (and of course memory protection) is a very important
feature even in a 1-processor computer. Of course one sole program will not
benefit from multitasking in a 1-processor computer, but you need only two
programs running at the "same" time to get the benefits (not to talk about
the tens or even hundres of processes running in a typical multitasking
environment).
  If you have several computers connected to each other, a program could
benefit from this and make each one of them perform an independent task of
the program.
  Usually this needs direct support in the program itself, but luckily
povray is not one of those. Since povray supports partial renders you can
run povray in each computer and render one part of the image.
  With proper tools you can automatize this task (without having to patch
povray itself). Of course a proper operating system will help providing these
tools by itself or allowing to make them rather easily (either with some
scripting language or easy support to a programming language like C).
  Unfortunately Windows is not one of these operating systems.

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