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<HR><H2>[COLD] Re: MUD system -&gt; MUD system conversion...</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fri Mar 15 13:31:16 1996
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:56:32 -0700 (MST)
From: Graeme Smith &lt;grysmith@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca&gt;
To: Brandon Gillespie &lt;brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com&gt;
Cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com, coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: &lt;Pine.BSF.3.91.960315091429.4901A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com&gt;



GRAEME SMITH                         email: grysmith@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
2536 138A ave Edmonton             

On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

&gt; There are groups of muds which share the same concepts in topology 
&gt; design.  For instance, a room is MOO is similar to a place in Cold.  The 
&gt; idea is to cater to these similarities.  Diku is as far from a similarity 
&gt; as you can get, and its not intended for converting diku topology.
&gt; 
&gt; What is dumped would not have much depth, but it would get 90% of the 
&gt; grunt work converted to a db, if somebody wanted to convert.
&gt; 
So what you are saying, is that this would be a generic Architectural
Language, that could then be translated into any compatible M* design.
and would lay out the basic architecture, for later fleshing out?

Sort of like a Map of a city, in the City Planners Office, it indicates
the nature of the city, yet still has to be built out.....

I like the concept..... Although how you would describe the "toilets that
really clog" so that it could get transfered from one M* system to another
is going to be a problem. Perhaps, you could outline the nature of the
verbs, and properties, in some manner. Problem is that the Metaphor of
the object, is realy only about 10% of its implimentation. 

Still if you like empty streets, and quiet buildings, I suppose it's a
valid approach. We could then have Environmental Artists, publishing in
this "Standard" and hundreds of Mirrored M* sites, using different servers.
A great way to popularize the M* concept. I can see it now, a CD rom with
a whole set of "Standard" architectural files, and a set of M* servers, that
could then be used to impliment and experiment with them.

Why am I not excited by the idea?

				GREY
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