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[MUD-Dev] Re: META: list "peerage"
-----Original Message-----
From: Koster, Raph <rkoster#origin,ea.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 4:20 PM
<<much cut>>
>More frightening: how many list members never post, because they feel that
>they cannot compose a mail such as that? It also gets as the issue of what
>the nature of the list is. If the list is a research institution (which it
>is currently heavily biased towards) then that is fine. You want the
>contributors to be those who actively advance or elucidate the state of the
>art every time they open their mouth. The danger is that said state of the
>art never materializes because we're all too busy talking about it to
>actually make it happen. (I seem to recall one poster--was it John
>Bertoglio?--who stopped posting last time I made a similar comment, with
the
>remark, "You're right, I am going to stop talking and start coding now.").
Not me....though I respect the person who said it. I haven't been posting
because of two reasons:
1) Been very busy on work-related projects (c.f. www.homeseller.net)
2) We are converting our NT/Xbase web work stuff to a UNIX/Cache (from
InterSystems in Boston, MA). This enviroment is somewhat expensive for a MUD
but has awesome potential. It is a Post Relational DBMS that uses
object-oriented, multi-dimentional arrays. Unlike other OODBMS's Cache is
faster than a scalded ape, running 7-20 times faster than Oracle/SQL Server,
et. al. when doing complex multi-table joins (which would be the rule in a
mud with a database backend.) The stuff runs on WIN XX and NT as well as
UNIX boxes the size of Cleveland...so at last, I don't have to trust GatesCo
for scalability.
<<more interesting stuff cut>>
>-Raph
Hope to convert from lurker to active in a few months.
John Bertoglio
- Thread context:
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Mugu,
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Thu 21 Jan 1999, 02:42 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Graphic design doc,
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Thu 21 Jan 1999, 02:31 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: META: list "peerage",
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Thu 21 Jan 1999, 00:06 GMT
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- [MUD-Dev] Re: META: list "peerage",
John Bertoglio alexb#internetcds,com, Thu 21 Jan 1999, 02:25 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: META: list "peerage",
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Thu 21 Jan 1999, 03:11 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: META: list "peerage",
Travis Casey efindel#io,com, Mon 25 Jan 1999, 03:22 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: META: list "peerage",
Andy Cink ranthor#earthlink,net, Mon 25 Jan 1999, 08:39 GMT
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