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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik)
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Subject: Re: Toward a Typology/Topology of Virtual Worlds
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Date: 28 Nov 90 04:35:23 GMT
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In article <11743@milton.u.washington.edu> Pezely@udel.edu (Cowboy Dan) writes:

>So, with this, even the text based MUDs can be seen as a virtual world
>with very simple i/o.  All that the current MUDs would need to connect
>to our systems would be a translator for the `go west' (or whatever;
>it's been a while since I've been in the mud) commands to the VEOS
>protocol for changing position or location.

I hope there's a general interest to define a common interface that
a cyberdeck could make use of with the low i/o MUD systems that appear
on the NET today. This would mean that there would be a nice evolution
of cyberspace nodes. All we need is a concensus to create a 
defined text interface where 'go west' means go west. If not, one
needs a knowledge interpreteter that tries to figure out all the needed/
working commands.

I don't see any real problems to hack together the first 3D MUD
cyberdecks, as long as the MUD databases would have a common set
of commands - sort of VRSQL.  

Please keep ANSI away from this standardization effort, it would take
20 years to write the first alpha draft :-).

regards,
Kent Sandvik

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