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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Date: 10 Dec 2012 15:24:32
Message: <50c64500$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/12/2012 07:01 PM, Warp wrote:
> clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
>> Someone already tried the compiling part some months ago, only to find
>> that although it did compile and even run, the results weren't
>> satisfactory (as in, the output included artifacts that shouldn't have
>> been there).
>
>> That's when I decided to order one myself.
>
>> So yes, it /is/ "porting" this time.
>
> Sounds more like bug-fixing rather than porting, unless it really is
> something that has to be modified because the platform, for some strange
> reason, works differently from all other platforms. Which would sound
> really strange given that it runs Linux and BSD...

It probably doesn't implement IEEE-754 arithmetic correctly or something 
daft like that.


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