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[VANILLA-L:592] RE: Andrew Markiel's article
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>From: ahn@indigo2.rad.bgsm.edu[SMTP:ahn@indigo2.rad.bgsm.edu]
>Sent: Monday, May 05, 1997 1:00 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: [VANILLA-L:591] Andrew Markiel's article
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>After reading Andrew Markiel's response to my article on r.g.n., a thought
>occurred to me...why is it necessary to group observers into the same
>lot as players? Wouldn't it be better to have an observer daemon that
>handles observers only, and leave daemonII/ntserv to handle real players?
>Sure, there would be some overlapping code, but it would be cleaner and
>more stream-lined...
Yes. that is something I proposed on this email list
a while ago in fact :) My idea was to have a stupid robot
relay packet information that was in essence dumps of
the shared memory segment to a recieving end. The
recieving end would almost entirely replace the daemonII
and instead it would set the shared memory to mirror the
other (sending) server. This method could also be chained
so that multiple "observer" servers could relay information
around.
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>Nick