On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:53:43 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>I use Sun Solaris as my primary workstation so I can help you with this. 
>First you will need to get a recent copy of Pov-Ray and the binaries on the
>Pov-Ray site are grossly out of date with no hope of that changing.  God only
>knows why.  

Something about none of us having a Sun machine to test them on.  Anybody
has an old SparcStation they were just gonna throw out, let me know.

>fine machine but don't expect blazing performance.  You need a multi-cpu
>system for that and the E450 can have only four cpus, that's nothing to write
>home to mom about.  

It seems a multi-cpu machine would be wasted on stock POV anyway, unless 
you're rendering animations or splitting up the frame for stills.

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
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