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by gorgoiler 2247 days ago
Pentium? Pentium! We were lucky to have half a 486 and even then it were powered by ferrets, wi’owt e’en DX floating point coprocessor to its name.
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>> Pentium? Pentium! We were lucky to have half a 486

I used to run it on DEC Alpha. I wrote a pair of scripts to generate include files of parameters and then render frames of an animation using those parameters. I had to hack POVRAY itself to output .tga files which I then fed to Dave's Targa Animator. A modest 20-30 frame animation took over night on that Alpha. University resources ya know...

Monty Python voice: "You were lucky!"