EMAIL: mfraser@host.kw.igs.net NAME: Morgan Fraser TOPIC: Great Engineering Achievements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: 8088 COUNTRY: Canada WEBPAGE: www.kw.igs.net\~mfraser RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.02 TOOLS USED: POVRay for windows (text editor) RENDER TIME: 2 hours 2 minutes HARDWARE USED: Intel Pentium-S 133 32MB RAM - Windows 95 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: When you thing of a great engineering achievement, you usually think of something like the great pyramids, the eiffel tower, or other large and obtrusive things. However, these accomplishments aren't true engineering which is the art of building something which costs more than you can afford for a price that you can afford. This image shows one such accomplishment - the motherboard of the first 8088 based machine. The main CPU is on the left side of the screen (very unassuming looking chip) The big board to your right is the Floppy Disk controller. None of the other expansion boards are included in this rendering, and I ran out of time to include all the wires and chips, but everything you see is taken from my old motherboard sitting on my desk. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: (see above)