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20515: Re: [MUD-Dev] Wilderness

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From: "Dave Rickey" <daver@mythicentertainment.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:25:31 -0400
Organization: Kanga.Nu
-----Original Message-----
From: Koster, Raph <rkoster@verant.com>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ola Fosheim Grøstad

>>> The reason I see to do it is to provide much contents with
>>> little (or at least less) work. Also as pointed out in earlier
>>> posts, it provides a method for storing contents using much less
>>> space.

>> Uhm, but disks are at 100GB.  You are better off spending that
>> computational power doing spatial intersection tests. :) A couple
>> of more years and they are at 1TB.

> There is no current way to reasonably distribute anything larger
> than a couple of CD's worth. Certainly 100GB of data is staying
> put on your


Slight quibble: DVD-ROM can hold something like 8 gig.  But that's
not yet common enough hardware in PC's to be a viable choice.

--Dave Rickey

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