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<h1>History of BatMUD</h1>
<p>
This page is a edited copy of the one that was originally on
<a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030509073910/http://www.bat.org/intro/history.php">http://www.bat.org/intro/history.php</a>,
but eventually was lost. All content (C) Copyright BAT Ry.
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<h2>1990</h2>
<h3>14th April 1990</h3>
<p>
BatMUD was first opened to the public as batman.hut.fi (the name
was later changed to batman.cs.hut.fi). The machine used was a Sony
NWS-1530 workstation running Sony NEWS-OS 3.3a (BSD 4.3) with 16
megs of memory. The machine was also the NFS-server for other Sony
workstations in the student laboratory.<br />
The founder of BatMUD was Janne Fr&ouml;sen (Jaf).
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<h3>????? 1991</h3>
<p>
The situation in batgirl was becoming worse and Herwood and
BatMUD were merged to make a single and larger mud. The new mud
was moved to lehtori.tut.fi.
</p>

<h3>??th ????? 1991</h3>
<p>
There were problems with local "stuff" at Tampere University of
Technology. A new place was found, Otto M&auml;kel&auml; in Jyv&auml;skyl&auml;.
The University gave permission to run BatMUD in palikka.jyu.fi which
is a Sun SparcStation 2 with 56 megs of memory. The operating system
was SunOS 4.1.3.
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<h2>1992</h2>

<h3>5th December 1992</h3>
<p>
Balanced Alternative Techniques Ry (a non profit organization)
was founded in Tampere. Its main purpose is to support BatMUD
and make possible its continued existance.
</p>

<h3>??th December 1992</h3>
<p>
Disk usage of BatMUD was too large. We had two choices: either we
move to another site or buy a new disk. Players of BatMUD started
to make donations. The money was spent on a 200M SCSI disk.
As money was left after buying the disk, another 16 megs of memory
was purchased. The disk and the memory were installed into palikka.
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<h2>1993</h2>
<h3>??th ????? 1993</h3>
<p>
Balanced Alternative Techniques Ry bought a Tatung Sparc Classic
clone. It had 96 megs of memory and one 1.2G disk. The operating
system was Solaris 2.2.
</p>

<h3>12th November 1993</h3>
<p>
BatMUD was moved from palikka to the new computer which was
located again in the Helsinki University of Technology under
the name, bat.cs.hut.fi.
</p>

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<h2>1994</h2>

<h3>4th March 1994</h3>
<p>
The Classic was sold and a new faster machine, an SS10/51, was
ordered. BatMUD borrowed a SparcStation 1 where the game could be
run wizardlocked.
</p>

<h3>28th April 1994</h3>
<p>
The new computer arrived. However, it was only an SS10/40, not
an SS10/51 as ordered. A free upgrade to an SS10/51 was promised,
The upgrade should be made during the summer. The machine had 80M
of memory and one 1.5G disk. The operating system was Solaris 2.3.
</p>

<h3>9th May 1994</h3>
<p>
The game was opened for playtesting. Guilds were missing and
backgrounds had to be fixed.
</p>

<h3>24th May 1994</h3>
<p>
The machine was upgraded to the SS10/51.
</p>

<h3>September 1994</h3>
<p>
First a 16M SIMM module was added and later a 64M SIMM module
was added. The machine now has 160M of memory.
</p>

<h3>October 1994</h3>
<p>
The game is full during peaktimes, even with max limit of mortal players
set to 150.
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<h2>1995</h2>

<h3>12th July 1995</h3>
<p>
A second CPU (75 MHz Super SparcII) was installed; simultaneously, the
max mortal limit was raised to 200 to test the capability of the new
hardware configuration.
</p>

<h3>September 1995</h3>
<p>
The old 50MHz Super Sparc CPU was toasted. The machine is now left with
only one CPU. Max limit of players was set to 160.
</p>

<h3>11th October 1995</h3>
<p>
The game is full during peak hours. The queue usually has 40 players
(the max player limit is still 160). Max players record so far is
over 240.
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<h2>1996</h2>

<h3>11th March 1996</h3>
<p>
The game is wizlocked. Guild system is changed during the wizlock.
</p>

<h3>26th October 1996</h3>
<p>
The game was finally opened for players.
</p>

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<h2>1997</h2>

<h3>30th January 1997</h3>
<p>
A new UltraSPARC 2 compatible Tatung Ultra 2 was ordered. The new
machine will have a 200MHz UltraSPARC CPU (and place for another
one).
</p>

<h3>27th March 1997</h3>
<p>
The new Tatung U2MP (Sun Ultra 2 Compatible) computer arrived. It will
take some time to get BatMUD to run on it, as more memory must be bought
as well as other missing equipment.
</p>

<h3>16th April 1997</h3>
<p>
The new machine was taken into use. The player limit was raised to 300.
</p>

<h3>2nd July 1997</h3>
<p>
The machine was too unstable and the game was wizlocked.
</p>

<h3>9th July 1997</h3>
<p>
The game was opened again with mortal limit 75. The machine is still
unstable, though it had not crashed even once during the wizlock.
(The machine crashed after 20 minutes uptime and were wizlocked again.)
</p>

<h3>31th July 1997</h3>
<p>
4*16MB SIMMs were removed and the game was reopened. The machine has now
256MB of memory. Player limit was set again to 300.
</p>

<h3>15th December 1997</h3>
<p>
The SIMMs were put back which meant that the machine had again 320MB
of memory. The player limit is currently set to 250.
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<h2>1998</h2>

<h3>14th April 1998</h3/>
<p>
The BatMUD is now 8 years old! To celebrate the 8th anniversary, an old
version (restored from backups done 14th September 1993) was opened
temporarily on the old machine (lepakko.bat.org port 2000).
</p>

<h3>September 1998</h3>
<p>
A new Sun Ultra 60 machine with two 360 MHz UltraSPARC CPUs and 768MB
memory was bought. Later 512MB RAm was bought and added to the new
machine. The machine is not yet in use.
</p>

<h3>1st October 1998</h3>
<p>
Four 9GB IBM SCSI disk were ordered with a box for them.
</p>

<h3>16th October 1998</h3>
<p>
The disks arrived and the new machine was moved to HUT.
</p>

<h3>17th October 1998</h3>
<p>
BatMUD was moved into the new machine.
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author	Matti Hamalainen <ccr@tnsp.org>
date	Fri, 01 Mar 2024 10:02:38 +0200
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