Bryce 5.5 once ran, before v0.9.56 [Free Full Version]

[Zachary Goldberg]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:22 PM, dirkmitt <[email protected]> wrote:

You know, my hardware might be flaky.

This machine is an ancient Pentium-3 at 600MHz, custom-built non-professionally. Now by itself, this should not stop it from recompiling tons of code. And it wouldn't explain the Bryce bug recurring under the exact conditions either. But on the other hand, when I rebuilt certain other large source trees in past months and years, it has happened to me that the machine just froze like that. Maybe the old hardware does have a glitch. Outside of hardware problems, even a huge malfunctioning make job shouldn't halt the system.

Dirk

If your hardware has problems all it takes is a single 1 or 0 to be
wrong to send a system call to the wrong place in the OS or any other
terribly horrific thing, and bring an entire system down. Mostly
it'll cause apps to try and access the wrong memory and get a
seg.fault but if it happens in the kernel theres little hope.


--
Zachary Goldberg
Computer Science & Engineering
Electrical Captain of Penn Electric Race Team
School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania

[dirkmitt]

Of course what Dr. Goldberg has written is 100% true. And this conclusion seems even more likely, considering that Linux / UNIX tend to encapsulate both their data and their processes more than Windows does.

I'd like very much to get a more serious, Linux-based PC one day, but one factor which has caused me to hesitate, has been the large number of 3D applications I currently have installed under XP. Thus, while Linux even offers us good alternatives in 2D graphics, I feel that some catching up needs to be done in 3D, while the really good 3D apps are highly expensive, both for Linux and Windows. But in the past I've purchased 3D graphics software which was at the bottom of the price scale for Windows, which does not exist yet for Linux.

Mind you, the companies which sell 3D graphics / game design software, also have their own agenda for making some versions of it available to Windows users for $ 200 etc.. They don't really make profit off those $ 200.

But that also makes me look to projects such as WINE, for maybe one day allowing some of my apps to run under that future Linux computer I'm hoping for. Because sure as taxes, I'm not going to buy Vista !

About the Bryce download:

You may find that this download file does not include the full documentation PDF, for which you might have to go to the DAZ Web site.

Dirk