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From: AArDvarK
Date: 7 Mar 2003 01:47:13
Message: <3e684071$1@news.povray.org>
The athlon MP means 'multiple processor' 
and they are designed to work in winXp... 
It is a much better designed chip with it's 
FPU and cashe system. Far mor efficient. 

1600 x 1200 at what PPI? 300? 

Alex 


"Timothy R. Cook" <z993126bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:3e68328d@news.povray.org...
| AArDvarK wrote:
| > no.... you should buy a new dual Athlon MP computer
| > a gig of pc3500 RAM and WinXP....
| > 
| > And have it done within the day
| 
| Dubious.  To have it done within the day (I assume you're referring
| to the 800x600 version), the computer would have to be 6 times as fast
| as this one.  That's 10.8 GHz.  They don't have those publicly
| available yet in single processors.
| 
| Besides, I'd like to go for one of those new Intel processors that
| can do multithreading, and have POV run on one thread and still be
| able to use the computer...
| 
| -- 
| Tim Cook
| http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
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