Re: ADMIN: VRML + JAVA - A Wedding

Master Zap ([email protected])
Wed, 18 Oct 95 18:22:08 -0500


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> Master Zap wrote:
> >I can't imagine where you got the notion that I, or my proposal, only
> >included determinsitic behavior!?!? How did you get that idea!??!?
>
> You said so.

Nope.

Luckily, I've saved every mail I ever wrote, and every mail ever gotten from
this list. The exact passage was:

Me to Mitra:

>> >If you have rsad my behaviour proposal (maybe you, have? It's at http:
//www.
>> >lysator.liu.se/~zap/vr_prop1.html) I aim to reduce every byte that is
sent
>> >across the network. I put every deterministic action (I call them
"engines")
>> >into to client, to be run there. The controlling host (the "beain")
sends
>> >timestamped messages to the "engines" which carry out it's commands.
>>
Mitra to me:
>> I have rsad your proposal, and it has some nice ideas, but the
restrictions
>> on what can go in the Engines is unnecessarily restrictive.
Note ^^^^^^^!!

I answered:
>Yes and no. Initially I wanted to "forbid" anything non-deterministic. I am
slowly >changing my mind, and I think I would allow some small amount of
nondeterminisms, >and slight deviations from the STRICT function-of-time
requirements.

We were discussing the engines. Not the whole behaviour.

Remember, behaviour = engine + brain.

> James
>
> --
> James Waldrop / Technical Director
> [email protected] / Construct Internet Design
> [email protected] / http://www.construct.net

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