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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Joel Kelso <<A HREF="mailto:joel#ee,uwa.edu.au">joel#ee,uwa.edu.au</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 17:39:36 +0800</LI>
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Alex Stewart wrote:
> Well, after having just said that I don't have any topics to start, I'm going
> to go ahead and start one.. :)
> In particular:
> * What kind of software are you working on? (MUD driver, MUD client, etc?)
> * Why?
> * What are its features?
> * What does it do (will it do) differently than other things do?
> * Any neat concepts involved?
> * Any boring concepts being used in neat ways?
> (you get the idea.. anything big I'm leaving out?)
> As for my answers to the above questions, I'm currently working on developing a
> fifth-generation MUD/MUVE driver written in Java (currently codenamed Lithium)
> designed to do all the things I've wished MOO and ColdMUD could do but can't,
> and to be a testbed for several new concepts I've come up with, including a new
> multiple-inheritance model, and a deadlock-free locking model for preemptive
> multitasking.
>
> Lithium will support a number of advanced features including preemptive
> multitasking, application-neutral design, a role-based internal security model,
> high on-disk database integrity and failure recovery, multiple internal
> programming language support, and a full object-oriented programming
> environment and DB-driver interface.
> <URL: <A HREF="http://www.crl.com/~riche/lithium.html">http://www.crl.com/~riche/lithium.html</A> >
> Anyway, that's my pet project at the moment. What's yours?
Visited the URL ... I'm writing Lithium, too :-) Seriously, though, I'm just
hacking around, rather than starting out with any real design goals. Lithium
looks like a great project.
I'm working on a server, written in C on POSIX with a feature set which will
look haunting similar, I suspect, to quite a few people.
* persistant, garbage collected object store
* first-class procedures
* dynamic inheritance O-O model
* lightweight multi-tasking (threading is internal to VM)
* extensible programming/database language support
* variable-boundary serialisation
By the last one, I mean the ability to detach fairly arbitary pieces of the
database, write it out, and import it into another running server which
shares enough common libraries.
Cheers,
Joel Kelso
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00230" HREF="msg00230.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
Scatter <a href="mailto:scatter#thevortex,com">scatter#thevortex,com</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 19:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00244" HREF="msg00244.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
Michael.Willey <a href="mailto:Michael.Willey#abnamro,com">Michael.Willey#abnamro,com</a>, Mon 19 Oct 1998, 13:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00128" HREF="msg00128.html">[MUD-Dev] Current Projects</A></strong>,
Alex Stewart <a href="mailto:riche#crl,com">riche#crl,com</a>, Fri 09 Oct 1998, 06:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00129" HREF="msg00129.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 09 Oct 1998, 07:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00132" HREF="msg00132.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
Joel Kelso <a href="mailto:joel#ee,uwa.edu.au">joel#ee,uwa.edu.au</a>, Fri 09 Oct 1998, 09:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00137" HREF="msg00137.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
The Arrow <a href="mailto:arrow#trelleborg,mail.telia.com">arrow#trelleborg,mail.telia.com</a>, Fri 09 Oct 1998, 19:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00139" HREF="msg00139.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
Travis S. Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Fri 09 Oct 1998, 20:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00140" HREF="msg00140.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
T. Alexander Popiel <a href="mailto:popiel#snugharbor,com">popiel#snugharbor,com</a>, Fri 09 Oct 1998, 20:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00153" HREF="msg00153.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
Ryan Prince <a href="mailto:jynx_ryn#mindless,com">jynx_ryn#mindless,com</a>, Mon 12 Oct 1998, 00:09 GMT
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