Hey, my first POV-Ray renders were done on an 8 MHz 80286 machine. It was so slow, it caused me to grudgingly fork over the cash to upgrade to a blindingly fast 25 MHz 80306 -- with a floating-point co-processor!
Of course, back in those days, my models (and especially the textures) weren't as complex as they later became... but still, 266 MHz isn't THAT bad. Comparatively.
Sweet deal! Dang it, now I've got to find the box mine's still packed in and get back to seeing what other nifty things I can do with it.
ReplyDeleteHmmm... POV-Ray should compile on it...
Yah! You can wait three weeks for a render!
ReplyDeleteK is in Florida today. I'm not relishing explaining this to her... :)
Hey, my first POV-Ray renders were done on an 8 MHz 80286 machine. It was so slow, it caused me to grudgingly fork over the cash to upgrade to a blindingly fast 25 MHz 80306 -- with a floating-point co-processor!
ReplyDeleteOf course, back in those days, my models (and especially the textures) weren't as complex as they later became... but still, 266 MHz isn't THAT bad. Comparatively.
True enough. A few years back, I was trying to find a Mac SE/30 so I could install Debian 68k on it. That woulda been slow--16 glorious megahertz!
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