[MUD-Dev] Re: Modular MUD

[Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai]

At 12:35 AM 8/29/98 , Ola Fosheim Gr=F8stad wrote:
>Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:

>Well, I'm not too worried about Windows being buggy or about loose pointers
>or other bugrelated matters. What I worry about is how well it runs over a
>long period of time. Microsoft is very much a "what does the average
>potential buyer of this product demand" type of company, so I simply do not
>believe that they have focused enough on long term stability with
>Windows95.   Maybe this is just my glasses being foggy or something, but I
>have noticed a slowdown in performance at the end of longer sessions
>(10hours+), which would suggest that Windows95 has a somewhat sloppy
>cleaningup department.

Aye, and NT suffers from the same fact, so I wonder if either Windows 9X or
NT are suitable for long term MUD running, since it allocates, but doesn't
clean up correctly.

>Besides, do you expect the admin to dedicate a machine to the MUD, or=
 should
>(s)he be able to say, run MSWord, at the same time?  If you expect the user
>to dedicate a machine to the task then you could simply let the user admin
>the MUD from a remote client with a simple and neat GUI?

Hmmm, I can almost taste the performance loss by running Word on the same
machine... Windows isn't that great at utilizing/optimizing the
swap/pagefile...
Also, given the fact that Windows machines have proven to very lenient
about the RFC specifications governing TCP/IP stack and POSIX compliance.

Heh, a thought just emerged, how about a MUD running under NetWare 5 with
native IP? =3D)

>> Hey, does anyone know where I can buy an Atari ST at a reasonable price?=
 Or
>> an Amiga? Between Apple, Amiga, and Atari, it occurs to me that I have
>> never been really proficient at programming any computer that starts with
>> an A. ;)
>
>Atari is basically, err something not so great, with GEM on top.  AmigaOS
>was neat in the late eighties when you counted MBs and MHz on one hand. (OS
>overhead was reasonable in % of available resources). Things may have
>changed since CBM went down the drain, but I doubt it is anything to be too
>excited about.

Hmmm, try www.gateway.com or www.amiga.de btw according to the rumors I
have heard, AmigaOS 4 and 5 are in the make/drawing for either/both x86 and
alpha platform...

Now that would rock... The stability of a UNIX like system, with a great
Window manager, and great coding sources/tools...

Btw, for the Amiga die-hards on the list, Matt Dillon is now a FreeBSD'er
(for a while now I think) =3D)

Regards,

--=20
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
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