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From: jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: Toward a Typology/Topology of Virtual Worlds
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Date: 30 Nov 90 05:56:14 GMT
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In article <1990Nov29.162751.6048@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes:
>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?

More intuitive VRs associate each event/interaction with a time based on when
they were generated.  Netnews based such events (articles) are associated with
a time based on reception, which is not necessarily consistent with time of
generation.  How about time-consistent and time-inconsistent?