Glen Berry <7no### [at] ezwvcom> writes:

> On Thu, 18 May 2000 04:55:23 +0930, PoD <pod### [at] merlinnetau> wrote:
> 
> >I agree, how many people use the MS-DOS version?
> 
> I do. I imagine that there would be several others as well. I also use
> the Windows version, but if I need to squeeze the most out of my
> available system resources, then the DOS version is my choice. There
> have been several scenes that I could render with the DOS version
> entirely in RAM, while the WIN95 version went into swap quite early.
> This isn't a problem with POV, of course, but a characteristic of
> using WIN95. DOS simply demands far less of my computer's resources,
> which leaves more for POV-Ray.

Have you tried Linux (or another free Unix)? I haven't compared it
directly in respect of POV-Ray, but I guess that it can be configured
to be almost as modest as DOS. A boot disc might be enough in your case.

Follow'up to povray.unix

Thomas

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