HISTORY

Dissapointed with the lack of a well implemented intermud system for Amylaar muds, I originally intended to simply port the CD intermud system. After examining the code for the CD system I became disenchanted by it's design and what I saw as limitations in it's protocol and implementation - in particular it's limitations on the size of data transferred and it's lack of any form of reliability scheme.

Around this time Alvin@Sushi (aka. James Armstrong) began experimenting with his own UDP-based intermud system which included simple handshaking. I was involved in testing of this code and - inspired by this approach - began developing my own system based on the concepts conceived by Alvin.

Since it conception, the intermud package (often referred to as the "inetd" system) has become a fully fledged and functional intermud communication system. More recently, testing and development has been done on both Amylaar and CD based muds to ensure that the code is fully portable between the two systems. It also allows the CD intermud system to run alongside it to provide the greatest flexibility and compatability to mud admins.