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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Jeff Kesselman <<A HREF="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</A>></LI>
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At 08:08 PM 5/2/97 PST8PDT, you wrote:
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>On 02/05/97 at 05:58 PM, Jeff Kesselman <jeffk#tenetwork,com> said: >At
>04:38 PM 5/2/97 PST8PDT, coder#null,net wrote:
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>>>While technically accurate, its really a questionable point. ColdX's
>>>definition of envets are tightly limited to connection and I/O state
>>>changes. It actually has no real concept of an internally generated
>>>event, or even an event model as regards internal state changes for
>>>the DB. It's only events center on what happens on its network ports.
>...
>>I think to make your poitn vaild you need to explain what the differnece
>>between an "internal event" and a message pass is, in your model. I see
>>no practical difference. In my model and in the term event driven as I
>>understand it to be commonly used, the only difference is that the call
>>coems from the OS... which is to say it happens inresponse to IO (or the
>>clock, which is also a form of IO really.)
>
>A running MUD has the unusual property of being self-animating. Ignoring
>the questions of swapping out inactive areas etc, even if no users ever
>log in, the mobiles will continue to wander their paths, night and day
>will progess thru the MUD world, weather will change, seasons will pass.
>The game world will animate itself.
>
>I model these animations as events. A mobile moves his next step by
>having a closing event log a new event to step him forward some time in
>the future.
Pardon me, but it soudns like syntactic sugar on top of a timer event.
I just don't see it as beign paradigmaticly really all that different from
animating off of a generic call back timer. I have sucha thing in my Cold
core runnign off the heartbeat,as I suspect virtually every Cold core does.
Thanks for giving me the reference, though.
JK
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00309" HREF="msg00309.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 01:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00306" HREF="msg00306.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Fri 02 May 1997, 12:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00310" HREF="msg00310.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 07:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00311" HREF="msg00311.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 08:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00312" HREF="msg00312.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 10:21 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00313" HREF="msg00313.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00318" HREF="msg00318.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#srce,hr">silovic#srce,hr</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 14:21 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00323" HREF="msg00323.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Mon 05 May 1997, 18:02 GMT
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