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  Re: The greatest knowledge...  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 14 Jun 2011 09:42:08
Message: <4df76530$1@news.povray.org>

> On 14/06/2011 02:04 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:
>
>> All this talk makes me wonder... has there ever been a mainframe port of
>> POV-Ray?
>
> 1. Yes, almost certainly.
>
> 2. Why would that be useful? Mainframes are supposedly optimised for I/O
> performance, not compute performance.

Ever heard of Cray Supercomputers?  ;-)

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