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From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: Wargames and Virtual Worlds (Was Re: Questions about BattleTech)
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.011254.2932@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 17:00:11 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.072659.17771@milton.u.washington.edu>, cyberoid@milton.
u.washington.edu (Bob Jacobson) writes:
|> My own inclination is to call these systems devices of the Devil, but
|> merely bashing technology doesn't get to the ideas and persuasions that
|> leads to such aberrations.  How do you feel about the virtual wargames?

    We heard similar things during the video game boom, but it's
settled down to a (relatively) quiet industry without tainting other
computer graphics uses.  Calling it an 'aberration' suggests PC
lurking in the background to me.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``Scientific progress goes "Boink"?'' - Hobbes