At 12:47 PM 7/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Friday, July 30, 1999, 12:37:33 PM, Richard J. Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Look at http://www.activeworlds.com
>
>> No matter what you write or find, you won't find
>> anything more suited to what you want than this.
>
>Activeworlds is quite nice, however it has draw backs.
>It is quite CPU intensive, it is not multiplatform, requires
>registration for the best experience (which is a cost of $20/user I
>believe, it's been a while) and then you are depending on a server
>that another company is running.
It doesn't run well in under 32M. Apart from that, it works fine.
There are emulators on the mac and unix that can run it on other
platforms.
It uses many thousand servers. ICANN could run their own.
>IRC is multiplatform, the server daemons are free for most OSs, the
>clients are free for most OSs, it is not CPU intensive on either the
>server or the client side.
The name space people tried this...
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