Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>
> All this talk makes me wonder... has there ever been a mainframe port of
> POV-Ray?
>

I did port a of Povray 3.5 to Linux390, a version of linux that ran on the
IBM 390 series mainframe.  Actually it was very simple,  download
the povray linux source, and do the standard install.  I can't
give any time comparisons since the install was on a mainframe emulator,
not a real machine.  If and when I get approval, I would like to install
linux on our mainframe, and of course one of the first things I will
do is install povray.  I don't expect it to be that fast compared to
a standard pc.  Processor speed is not that much faster than todays
pc's. It has the standard ieee floating point instructions, but its optimized
for commercial business processing, not scientific or engineering type work.
Plus I'll have to come in at 3AM on a Sunday morning when the business workload
is at its lightest.

Isaac.

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