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Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript
Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
>
> Imagine being able to read news in one window, mail in another, and
> play the game in a third with help files parallel to the active
> terminal session -- plus a coding window you can open up for
> designing your own stuff and updating it on the MUD. A browser will
> do all of this with little or no effort; just do your help system in
> HTML, run your system's news files as an NNTP server, your MUDmail
> system as an IMAP or POP server, stick sendmail up on the machine...
> there's a whole lot of functionality you could handle for your users
> with simple, easy stuff. Communicator Pro comes with a 3270
> emulator! Let's do a MUD in CICS! :)
>
> Sorry, I get nostalgic for obsolete protocols.
>
FWIW, IBM's 3270 communication is the functional equivalent of Unix's
curses or ncurses. 3270 is far from obsolete, I wish it were, but
it does pay handsomely these days. ;)
> >!!! The last application I ever tend to run is a web-browser. And then I
> >typically use lynx for a few minutes (partly because I don't have enough
> >*colours* to run Netscape reasonable due to my video card).
>
> Yeah, you condescending UNIX types always did tend to sniff at the
> rest of us for liking color and sound and windows. :P
>
At least one person on this list has admitted to having a traumatic
childhood experience with a rainbow. Perhaps their are others who
would wish to share? :P
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Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock caliban#darklock,com, Thu 26 Feb 1998, 03:21 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript,
Jon A. Lambert Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com, Thu 26 Feb 1998, 05:41 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock caliban#darklock,com, Thu 26 Feb 1998, 06:24 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript,
Jon A. Lambert Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 04:38 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock caliban#darklock,com, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 07:53 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript,
Travis Casey efindel#polaris,net, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 12:43 GMT
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