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28 Sep 2024 19:18:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: whither POV-Ray ??  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 25 Jul 2020 16:15:42
Message: <5f1c92ee$1@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:57:30 +1000, Chris Cason wrote:

> I then built a console-based POV port for OSF/1 (not hard as it's pretty
> straightforward) but as I wanted to be able to see render progress I
> added code that would show a render preview via X Windows and
> contributed that to the project as well. Somewhere in this timespan
> Chris Young invited me to be the maintainer for the VMS or Unix port (or
> both, don't quite recall) and here I am today.

Oh, man, Chris Young is a name I haven't heard in ages.

I remember Dan Farmer (ISTR that he lived not far from where I did at the 
time, but I never had a chance to meet him) and David K. Buck (who still 
pops in here from time to time).

I wonder what Dan is up to these days.




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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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