Re: Several (still) unresolved issues

Jeff Sonstein ([email protected])
Mon, 12 Jun 95 08:55 PDT

>> 3) CSG modelling [...]
>
>I think we need to examine where this physical modeling is going to take
>place. My feeling is that it won't be something that's replicated on each
>of the hosts in the simulation; they're far too busy doing rendering to do
>the dynamics as well. I suspect that full-blown physical simulation will
>be handled by the hosts on which the entities reside; those hosts will store
>whatever information they need on a per-entity basis to do the simulation.
>

IMHO:

serving up file contents is the responsibility of a server, and deciding how
to present the contents is the responsibility of a client... the more we
fall back into the old hierarchical data/computing model of the central
server doing processing, the more we defeat that which makes the Web powerful...

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