Warp wrote:
> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> Because I did not understand his remark "tho a shell prompt would be 
>> even nicer <grin>" and said so. Why would one wants a shell prompt for 
>> POV?
> 
>   POV-Ray (at least the unix version) can be run from a shell prompt in
> a text terminal. It does not need a windowing system nor any support for
> graphics. (In fact, that's how POV-Ray was originally designed to work,
> and still does. The GUI in the Windows and Mac versions are just add-ons
> added much later.)
> 
>   I'm pretty sure that he half-seriously asked if he would be granted
> an account with a shell prompt in that computer so that he could log in
> and run povray himself.
> 
>> (thinking about it a few days later, I think he meant he did not want 
>> *POV* on a prompt, he wanted access to the beast for *himself*).
> 
>   I think that what he wanted is to be able to log in into the computer
> and run povray himself, which would be the easiest way to run many tests.
> (Of course he was probably not asking it seriously because granting
> accounts in such supercomputers is not something done lightly.)
BTW I'll talk to this colleague soon, he will be back in amsterdam. Of 
course the real test would be to test the multiprocessor stuff. I think 
I will come back to that when I know there is at least some possibility 
of running a POV benchmark on this super.
> 
>> If you understood that immediately, you might have told me, in stead you 
>> choose to address me like I am a 12 year old with no computer experience 
>> at all, which IMHO makes you look a bit stupid. ;)
> 
>   It just looked a lot like you had some kind of confusion between shell
> prompts and graphical user interfaces...
> 
Yes I figured out that you were thinking along that line. But seriously 
how likely was that? And it did suggest, at least to me, that you were 
thinking prompt and gui are the only two options.

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