Gavin Walker (gwa### [at] n2kcom) wrote:
> Hi guys,

> I've been using PovRay (and before that DKB) for a while now, always on PCs.

  Same for me, except that I started on an Atari ST.

> I now work in an office with a number of Sun Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 machines,
> and knowing nothing about them (or Unix) I was wondering if anyone could
> tell me if there's a PovRay implementation for them.

  I am a student at an engineering school in Paris, with a number of Sun Ultra
too. And believe me, one of the first software pieces I got installed was
POV-Ray v3.0. No problemo, just download the source from http://www.povray.org
or ftp://ftp.povray.org. There might even be an executable for Sun, but it
probably is not optimized for the UltraSparc processor. Anyway, get the
"generic Unix" version of the source, have them compiled by your system
administrator, and then enjoy... You could even have PVM and PVM-POV
installed, so that the computing would be parallelized. Imagine your image
raytraced by 10 Ultras at the same time. Lovely.

> It would be cool to
> kick off some animation jobs at night, because they've just *got* to be
> faster than this Pentium box.

  Well, not *so* much. My Pentium MMX 200 MHz with 32 Mo RAM is about as fast
as an Ultra 1. I do not know about Ultra 2's.

  Happy tracing,

Roland.
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