Curtis, P. 1992. Mudding: Social phenonmena in text-based virtual realities. Tech. Rep. CSL92 -4, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, Calif.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....client and server, and to minimize latency in refreshing the display, we require the ability to ship portions of the database dynamically along with relevant accessor procedures to the server. Cooperative programs or multiuser dungeon (MUD) environments also require this kind of functionality [Curtis 1992]. A MUD is a network accessible program and database which can be extended by many users in real time. The essential characteristics of a MUD are that it be extensible from within; in other words, users can add new data elements to a MUD database, or new functionality to the MUD core program, and ....

Curtis, P. 1992. Mudding: Social phenonmena in text-based virtual realities. Tech. Rep. CSL92 -4, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, Calif.

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