Your margins are just a wee bit too large. About 30-35 characters, actually. On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Gary Barnett wrote: > > >I think you have the right idea, by the way. Test the MUD on Win95 (or > >WinNT) and actually run it on a UNIX. That's the way I'm doing it > >(though with OS/2 instead, which is more BSD socket-compatible). > > I'd love to just run it under NT, but with all the additions I plan on adding to it, it's just not going to > be fast enough under NT -- I'm amazed at how many processor cylces NT eats up running the mud > vs. Linux. For my purposes (being a network engineer in a Novell, NT, 95 environment it makes sense > to use the tools I know) NT would be better, but if Linux will get the job done using a fast 486 (which I > happen to have a spare) and NT would require a fast Pentium (I'm not giving up my new machine to run > a mud!!), I'll use the money I'll save to take a vacation :) Vacation? What's that? > As a development environment, NT/95 and MS VC is hard to beat. I know the tools well, and I really > don't imagine that I could ever get as much done under Linux -- at least not w/o tearing out what's left > of my hair ... Microsoft has done a bang up job on VC 4.1 -- gotta give them credit for a great programming > environment; even if I don't like 95's memory management, or NT's huge processor/memory overhead. Now all we need is for someone to port CircleMUD to Visual Age C++... HINT HINT! Of course, I need a copy first. Well, whatever. It shouldn't be too terribly tough to do, with most of the OS/2-specific code already in place for gcc. If anyone wants to, er, loan me a copy of VACC, I'll do it. ;p ------------------------------------------------------------------ Barid Bel Medar icarus@berkshire.net Knights of the Cosmos Shayol Ghul Resort and Health Spa ------------------------------------------------------------------ "I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top." - English Professor, Ohio University ------------------------------------------------------------------
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