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12167: Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)

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From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:48:19 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 04:11:57 -0500 (EST) 
Rahul Sinha <rsinha@glue.umd.edu> wrote:

> The threads process queued commands coming from players, then
> block until the next tick strikes.

Why tick based?  Why have any sort of fixed polling loop?

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