🚀 go-pugleaf

[long (but informative and well-conceived) description of "ring" protocol
 used to handle passing data in multiplayer game deleted]

this sounds suspiciously like the IEEE 802.4 token bus protocol - did you think
this up yourself? If so, what inspired it? (If you are unfamiliar with the 
protocol -- I give that about a 5% probability -- you will be really wierded
out at how close you are to it.)

For those of you who didn't post that article (the vast majority of readers,
I would guess :) this is a good time to put in a plug for generalists! Take
time out every once in a while and read up about something that's only 
peripherally related to your field -- graph theory, networks, game theory,
genetic engineering, plumbing.... Lots of time the problem you are trying
to solve has been solved by someone in another field, but you'd never know it
from a literature search because the names are different, but the structure
of the problem is the same.

-(-- John
jvm@cc.gatech.edu





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