Burka was known to her fellow players as "ashne" - stylized in lowercase - on Tinymud Classic & Islandia, hosted by CMU prof Jim "Fuzzy" Aspnes, among other servers
A TCP port concentrator, implemented by "leet". This add-on front end multiplexed connections with separate processes, allowing us to overcome the 64 file descriptor hard limit, per process, on Unix. Nearly 256 players could participate!
Na Choon Piaw, while working for Bell Labs Research on the East Coast, added a programming language that resembles Forth, releasing TinyMUCK 1.x and TritonMUCK test bed server.
Piaw worked with a VAX server, 7800 I believe.
also, Jon "Stinglai" Blow from Berkeley designed a string interning method for TinyMUCK 2.x that saved plenty of memory, by deduplicating ASCII strings in memory.
Me? I assumed many interesting names over the years. Primarily "ChupChup" or his plural counterparts, "chupchups", or also "Lucretia", the statuesque goth woman wearing "boots of the deepest black". But in Real Life, (RL), I remain Robert Earl.
https://www.linnaean.org/~lpb/muddex/mudline.html
See also: Burka's MUDDEX (1993), curating listings of the erstwhile MUD servers as NSFnet ruled the USA
https://www.linnaean.org/~lpb/muddex/index.html
Burka was known to her fellow players as "ashne" - stylized in lowercase - on Tinymud Classic & Islandia, hosted by CMU prof Jim "Fuzzy" Aspnes, among other servers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Aspnes
several interesting hacks we collaborated on:
A TCP port concentrator, implemented by "leet". This add-on front end multiplexed connections with separate processes, allowing us to overcome the 64 file descriptor hard limit, per process, on Unix. Nearly 256 players could participate!
Na Choon Piaw, while working for Bell Labs Research on the East Coast, added a programming language that resembles Forth, releasing TinyMUCK 1.x and TritonMUCK test bed server. Piaw worked with a VAX server, 7800 I believe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyMUCK?wprov=sfla1
also, Jon "Stinglai" Blow from Berkeley designed a string interning method for TinyMUCK 2.x that saved plenty of memory, by deduplicating ASCII strings in memory.
Me? I assumed many interesting names over the years. Primarily "ChupChup" or his plural counterparts, "chupchups", or also "Lucretia", the statuesque goth woman wearing "boots of the deepest black". But in Real Life, (RL), I remain Robert Earl.