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From: Gavin Walker
Subject: Sun Ultra
Date: 13 Apr 1998 17:32:08
Message: <6gvahe$egj$1@oz.aussie.org>

Hi guys,

I've been using PovRay (and before that DKB) for a while now, always on PCs.
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. It would be cool to
kick off some animation jobs at night, because they've just *got* to be
faster than this Pentium box.

Regards


Gav
Yokohama

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From: Roland Mas
Subject: Re: Sun Ultra
Date: 21 Apr 1998 02:30:40
Message: <6hheeg$14r$1@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org>

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.
--

bob### [at] casimirrezelenstfr -- Linux, POV-Ray, LaTeX

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From: Neil Openshaw
Subject: Re: Sun Ultra
Date: 30 Jul 1998 06:38:27
Message: <35C03F18.FF873EF9@sunsale-demo.co.uk>

I'm looking after a demo room at Sun. I have Ultra 1's 2's 30's 60's etc. I run
POVray at home on my 166MMX PC and I want to take advantage of the machines
here.
Does the SunOS verson, use a simular GUI to the PC because if so I'm having
trouble finding it.

Can anyone help ?

Thanks
Neil Openshaw

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From: Timothy Farley
Subject: Re: Sun Ultra
Date: 9 Jan 1999 00:34:49
Message: <3696ea79.0@news.povray.org>

Will the SunOS version of POV-Ray run under Solaris 2.6? or Solaris 7?

Thanks in advance, please reply to email

- Tim -

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