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From: broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
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Subject: Re: Toward a Typology/Topology of Virtual Worlds
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In article <11645@milton.u.washington.edu> jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai
) writes:
>I prefer the term "asynchronous" to "non-synchronous".

So do I, but I was concerned people might confuse the medium with the mode
(i.e. "asynchronous" communications lines).  Actually, I'd like to avoid
this "overloading of operators" and find a better pair of words that
'synchronous' and 'asynchronous'.  Ideas?

>I propose the attributes of "persistence" and "transience".  A VR is
>persistent is it has a "history" that can be accessed from within the VR.
>Usenet news and MUDs are persistent, but IRC and party-lines are transient.

Sounds very good to me.

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