From: beeman@cats.ucsc.edu (Adam Beeman)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.lp
Subject: Re: MudOS 0.9 Press Release
Date: 16 Nov 1992 01:01:02 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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Keywords: LPmud MudOS 0.9 :)


In article <41024@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:
>>Many of the MudOS developers have said that 0.9 is the last major
>>version of MudOS that they will be helping with.  Unless someone else
>>plans to take up the reins of MudOS, the MudOS team will most likely
>>only release bug fix releases in the future.
>
>Er, any truth to this?

Yes, this is true.  When you think about it, though, not even 3.1.2 has been
fully explored to its maximum potential, and with the expanded features of
MudOS, it will take quite some time for us mudlib coders to catch up.
Meanwhile, most of the people who were actively coding the driver are
ready to start from scratch or focus on their specific projects.

Truilkan and Wayfarer will no doubt work on some amazing new multithreaded,
totally insane OO creation that draws everything they learned from MudOS
into a new package free of the limitations of LPmud.  I'm sure it will be
a while before we see anything released from them in this direction, since
starting from scratch is often slow going...

Jacques will no doubt focus on his 3-dimensional, graphical mud system that
he's been working on for some time now, which was why he got involved with
MudOS to add the socket support in the first place.  Now, MudOS is basically
ready for him to continue his high-end VR experimentation.

Whiplash is working in a new software company and has been out of the team for
several months since he moved and lost net access.

Huthar has mysteriously vanished.  He doesn't seem to be answering our email,
he hasn't logged into any of our muds recently, and nobody can figure out
why, since he does still log into his account at school.  We think he's been
possessed by evil aliens who want nothing to do with us.  It's very odd...

I'm not too sure what Blackthorn and Cynosure are going to do.  It's possible
that they may continue working with expanding MudOS, I guess I'd have to ask
them. 

I've been with MudOS all along, but ironically haven't coded any of
it except for some LPC objects that test it and utilize the new features,
so until I become a C guru, I'm certainly not qualified.  By the time I am,
there will no doubt be something better.

But... did Lars ever answer your email?  Yes, he has answered mine before,
(I haven't mailed him in a while, now), but I get the impression that
I was very lucky in that respect... I know a lot of people who have not
gotten any response.

>-- 
>Darin Johnson
>djohnson@ucsd.edu  --  How come my mind went off for lunch before I did?

Adam Beeman
Buddha@tmi-2

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