[MUD-Dev] Blending graphics with text

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:32:16 -0400 (EDT) 
u1391470  <u1391470 at csi.uottawa.ca> wrote:

> Each position in the zone is associated with a room (for flags
> etc), because of memory constraints. Given the number of
> "coordinates" (ie.  unique locations a person can move within the
> world), we found it to be too memory intensive for each to have
> its own structure.

The normal solution to this is to farm the structures out to disk
via a database or persistent store.  Both ways have advantages.  The
savings over having to keep everything in RAM (even with VM and
Linux's VM system ain't too wonderful) can be considerable.

> Of course, by removing all/most text (the more graphics we are
> able to create, the less text we would need), we are "moving away"
> from the whole concept of a mud, regardless of our base. 

Is a MUD necessarily text based?

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