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In those days, the profs were the ones playing the video games. They were "testing the newly pulled fibre optics" by trying to saturate it with Wow, Diablo, Co
by barkingcat 4y ago
In those days, the profs were the ones playing the video games.
They were "testing the newly pulled fibre optics" by trying to saturate it with Wow, Diablo, Counterstrike, Doom, Quake, etc.
They would book the computer labs of 60+ computers and tell everyone to boot up a copy of (ahem pirated) Half Life and get everyone one on games and then run a traceroute/ping/packet trace, etc to measure what was happening.
Those were the days...
- sandos 4y agoGames generally use very little bandwidth so that was not a clever test imo... :)
- corobo 4y agoGames tend to need low latency though, so it's not a dumb test.
- int_19h 4y agoDR-DOS / Novell DOS actually shipped with a basic multiplayer space sim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars) in the box, with the official explanation for its existence being "to test network topology and configuration".